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

I know I'm never going to be a big pop star, because I'm not willing to conform.

I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwrit er. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want.

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

New York has always had a love for Southern artists. There's no place else that makes me feel like the city does. I just love the immediate nature of the city, you can get whatever you want whenever you want it and do whatever you want whenever you want to.

I don't think I have any right to say I belong to that [Woody Guthrie/Bob Dylan tradition]. I think that's something that eventually maybe you get inducted into. I'm just experimenting.

On the road, I weigh 168. At home, ten more.