The easiest thing I do is assignment songs. They tell me what they need me to write. I can do that fairly quickly. Writing for an orchestra is difficult. Writing songs [on your own] is most difficult of all. Though [writing for] the orchestra is close.

Short people got no reason to live.

It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.

I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.

"Rednecks" always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.

I've often written about places that are totally different from anything I know. Sometimes they turn out better.

I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.