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

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

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.

I didn't do anything differently than what my father was doing. It's a really hard family to rebel in. I could have become an accountant. Or I could have become a Republican.

What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing.

I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have 20 verses to get your point across.