The most important thing you can do as a performer is to be yourself, or be an onstage version of yourself. If youre not being true to yourself, and somebody likes that other version of you, youre kind of stuck.

I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs.

I married her just because she looks like you.

Barbecue sauce is like a beautiful woman. If it's too sweet, it's bound to be hiding something.

There's no bad luck, There's just the luck you've found.

Everybody's career is different. In this new age of being able to talk to the whole world at once, the possibilities are staggering, really, to be able to do things yourself. But I've always enjoyed my relationship with the record company.

When I first was trying to play the clubs around Houston to start playing my own songs, songwriters like Eric Taylor and Vince Bell and Townes Van Zandt and Don Sanders were just really encouraging to me and would let me sit in with them during their sets and introduce me to the person that owned and booked the club.