I still write more songs about girls than anything else.

I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.

Every day on Earth is another chance to get it right.

I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time.

The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

I really believe that if I make records that are indispensable to my audience, they'll go out and spend money to buy them, even if they've already downloaded them. If they can afford it. If they can't, I'd rather they be able to download it than not get it at all.