If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem and you're screwed.

I'm not the kind of writer that can wake up and say, "Okay, I'm gonna write a song today," and have that song be the kind I would want to record. The songs of mine that I end up liking are songs that come from real experience. They're like chapter titles in my life.

Every afternoon, I was in the pasture with cattle or fishing and shooting my BB gun. That kind of freedom allows imagination to develop.

I'm really just trying to do things that I enjoy. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to. I just have to think if I like those different kinds of music, there are other people who aren't so different from 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.

Home is where my horse is.

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