If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.

The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die -- maybe.

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

My therapist says that I choose women that I couldn't possibly succeed in a relationship with because I really want to be alone. Which sounds complicated and convoluted to me, but I don't know. Maybe she's right. There's a part of me that wants that.

What's important is you wake up in the morning and something doesn't exist, and when you finish you day's work something is in the world that wasn't there before.

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.

My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.