I love mixing up my genres.

Sarah Palin is a great example of someone that just stirs the pot for the sake of the attention. No vision, no critical thinking, no backup to her statements. Just to incite little riots everywhere and capitalize upon it financially. To me, she is a microcosm of the ultimate cynicism in American politics.

You stand in front of a great painting and your heart just opens and your mind expands about what's possible. That, to me, is a connection to what God is.

I was sensitive to music and poetry, and it was around me growing up.

"Country" has become a marketing term. I see myself as a songwriter.

Being in Vietnam changed him [Johnny Cash] fundamentally. He was devastated when we went into Iraq.

The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore.