You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common.

When someone tells me what he or she was doing the first time they heard a song of mine, then I've done a good job. If my song becomes about your life, then I'm successful.

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.

What would we do if we didn't try? We have to try.

I don't ever try to anticipate my audience. I just write the songs I want to write, and hope people like 'em.

I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard.

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.