Don't make a threat and then not do it.

I still feel conflicted because I don't always get to spend as much time with my daughter as I'd like, given my work.

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.

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.

I always thought that if I was popular I must be doing something wrong.

It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.

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.