My goal is to make one-not a hodgepodge, but just the sort of record that I would want to listen to.

For years, my mom dated a man who was really active in the Baptist church in the town next to the town I grew up in, and so he used to drag me to these Baptist church services that lasted forever. I remember that I didn't like the church services, but I really liked the music.

I've made records that everyone has hated and I've loved, and made records that everyone has loved and I've deemed, at best, mediocre.

I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.

I've been having a midlife crisis since I was four years old.

It will be interesting to see what the long term fruits of our national apathy will be, 'cos so far they've been pretty foul.

I’ve never seen the need to choose one type of music at the exclusion of another. That would feel kind of sad and arbitrary.