All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.

My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.

As a southern man, there's two things I'm definitely not scared of: bow ties and white pants.

It's nice coming to Nashville, and we have four-bedroom house and a dog, and we go swimming a lot. We get down here and spread out a lot, and I miss my sweet tea and my cornbread and my good southern cooking - but I'm down here eating pretty for two weeks and I'm ready to go back to New York City.

I think the best thing an artist can do is not hang out with other artists. I really dislike hanging out with musicians, for the most part, except for a few select friends, because I don't like to talk about music all the time.

I grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood. So going over to friends' houses for dinner, their parents listened to Al Green and Luther Ingram. It was something that hit me early on, the feeling that came across.

I've got a 27-inch waist. Before, I was stupid smaller. Finding clothes in the South was impossible.