First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.

I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody.

One thing that I learned that helped me deal with human behavior is confrontation, and I'm not that great with confrontation at all. But once I started to be O.K. with that, the better everybody's life got.

When I was playing for tips in college, I felt a fire in my soul. I had the same principle of focus that I had learned playing football.

When I'm onstage I just want to feel as comfortable as I possibly can.

I like to rock and roll, but I'm a mushy guy, too. I want to be the guy that all the girls love and all the guys want to hang out with.

had no excuses for the things that we'd done, we were brave, we crazy, we were mostly young.