I never get tired of exploring Americana or country music, and I always have a little bit of a crooner in me that never seems to go away.

I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.

If you knew how meat was made, youd probably lose your lunch.

Traveling renews you.

It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.

I think I fall into a lot of cracks in terms of I'm too something. I'm too this, I'm too that. And my music has never really had a home. I've been this floating alternative. I'm too mainstream for alternative. I'm too alternative for mainstream. And I'm just kind of wandering.

I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.