I may as well do everything as if it’s brand new, and if I start to feel that any of it’s a compromise, then I’ll...I’ll be in Wisconsin.

Possibly the whole creative whirlwind of any musician's life is based on garnering and developing and absorbing more and more experience.

I love the feeling of letting fly, of pushing as far as I could go with my voice. The only way you can really graduate how you do it is by doing it regularly to people who don't have to be super impressed. You can do it in the studio all day long but you don't get the flashback that you get onstage.

When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.

There's not a lot of towns that I can go to and take family - too many incongruous knocks on doors - "Hello, honey. Have you missed me?"

The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.

Boredom is the beginning of all destruction and everything that is negative.