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.

When you have a solid upbringing and a strong sense of place, that sustains you. My sense of home never leaves me.

I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to.

If it's not too late, make it a cheese-burger

It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then.

Who keeps on loving you when you've been lying, saying things that ain't what they seem? God does, but I don't. God will, but I won't.

Singing your own songs is all about individual expression