You're charging money to have people come watch you play; I want them to feel taken someplace good or provoked into thinking my way for an hour and a half or two hours.

If tears were liquor/ I'd have drunk myself sick.

The more years you put behind you, hopefully making music that surpasses what you did before, you're playing bigger places and it kind of weirdly becomes a business.

Basically I'm always singing about the same stuff whether it's in a loud or quiet outfit.

I have been a provoker and I'll probably always be one in the public arena for the rest of my life.

I've never presented myself as anything less than a flawed person.

I really love that type of music where someone can take a guitar or light instrumentation and a beautiful voice and can send me somewhere.