The reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were driving around a lot.

I'm trying to make records where people don't feel cheated. Nashville has been guilty of insulting the Country Music audience for years and years.

I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict.

I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.

What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything.

By the time I wrote those first three songs for his new CD ... I wanted to push the poetics as hard as I could push them, and not decide the songs were finished until I committed them to whatever the recording format was. I went through drafts right up until I recorded every single one of them.

Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.