Every band wants to go believe me, not everybody makes it, but they want to.

I remember people would talk about Country Music like it was this sexist, lame thing. Well, no, because Dolly Parton is writing songs and playing her guitar and producing. She's doing it all and she's got hits on the radio.

I'm pretty self-conscious, so I tend to work in a way where I say what I need to say and get out rather than revisit things. It's kind of a collage style. I realized that it had more emotional weight that way. I'll always be in the developmental stages as far as being a songwriter.

I tried to have more than one emotion on the record.

We shouldn't censor ourselves based on the weak idea of "looking cool." It's such a waste of potential awesomeness.

When you live in a lot of places, you can't help but have them become part of you. Technically, I am a Southerner, but I did not grow up in the South. So I'm a Southerner by accident, but a Washingtonian.

There's this art form in songwriting that's incredibly difficult - to be really funny in a song and also really touching. I can't do that.