I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.

I feel like it's really kind of a sit-down album, much in the same way I imagine Billie Holiday or someone sitting down in the studio and singing.

If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.

I don't want to beat people over the head with my political views. It's more about the humanitarian aspect of it.

Blaze Foley was a genius and a beautiful loser.

I'm an artist first and foremost. So things are gonna go up and down and sideways and whichever way all through life.

There's always stuff to write about. So it's very gratifying on a lot of levels. This is stuff I got asked over and over again, or heard about. People would ask me about it, but they kind of knew the answer. It would be this ongoing question: "Your fans are wondering, now that you're married, are you still going to be able to write songs?" I'm serious! I would get asked that!