Music should be poor. Music should be with out air conditioning. That's just the way it is.

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.

I like to make great albums.

So it's the greatest compliment in the world when people want to hear you sing. That means it feels good to them, so I keep doing it.

I wasn't encouraged to write just stand there and sing and I never thought I was a writer. I always figured if I couldn't write something as good as "He Stopped Loving Her Today," then what's the point?

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.

The musings are the same I believe the fire to create burns so heavily that I am never far from a guitar or a fountain pen.