Some girls are taught to be sexy.

Yes I think I'm okay, walked into the door again.

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that. That's why I write the way I do.

Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.

I wasn't afraid of going places or doing new things. I would do just about anything or go anywhere. I'd get a notion in my mind and just follow it.

I fingerpick a lot because I can get more of a range of feeling from the guitar than I can when I bash away with a pick.

But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized.