I'm comfortable in my miseries. I have no choice.

What is happy? I think happy's in the moment. I don't think everybody can be happy all the time.

My thinking brain never stops my creative brain never stops so they wrestle a lot and get in fights sometimes they fight in the night and keep me up.

The only way to get ahead in the music business these days is to call up all your friends. To pool your resources.

It was hard to work and work and work and not get your music played on the radio.

I don’t have a problem baring my emotions in music. That’s one of the reasons I’m glad to have music in my life. I’m pretty resilient as far as being a human being. A lot of songs write themselves.

Ben [Peeler] and I have known each other for a decade. He trusts my crazy ideas and spontaneous combustion and he gets the players I want and knows the kind of personality players I like. He has taste that I trust and that to me is more important than any technical things.