The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.

For a songwriter, you dont really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes.

Well you say that it's gospel, But I know that it's only church.

There's nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you're not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I'm the worst. I'm the worst at that.

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.

Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.

I don't think that you should be per­fectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates consider­able personal problems.