It's difficult to get started-when it comes to dealing with an unknown quantity, people are reluctant to trust their own opinion. It helps if two or three people give you a boost.

I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!

It's important to be successful enough to be able to keep doing what you love.

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

I like my audience. I always feel when up on stage performing that I could enjoy having a cup of coffee with any one of them.

I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living

She was ugly from the front, and I said ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly. Well, I could handle it behind her.