Fool you once, you are forgiven. Fool you twice, you're just a fool.

I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?

I'm a liberal arts junkie.

I was really young, but I can't say that I wrote much of anything. I liked to scribble; I thought of it as that. But I was playing guitar and ukulele when I was in second grade.

I know some artists who come out of country music and the three sessions a day work ethic where you walk in, and you're told you play this note, this note, and this note, and you don't vary it. I know that works great for some people. It wouldn't work for me.

We all have two lives. The one we are given and the one we create.

In the late 80s, artists could be signed to labels and be nurtured. It wasn't, "We're going to give you one shot, and if you don't measure up, you're gone".