I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned.

I'm not going to play lead guitar in a concert hall full of people, because I'm going to mess up a lot.

When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.

I hope there are some audiophiles still out there.

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.

Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way.

In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing.