I would love to hear someone write a song like 'He Stopped Loving Her Today' rather than 'You're hot. I'm hot. We're in a truck.' It's just mind-numbing to me.

It's so much more interesting when you're human. I hate making mistakes, but I'm not afraid of 'em.

I am not struggling. What I do, it is what I do.

I never aspired to be up front. When I was a kid, I didn't ever look in the mirror with a hairbrush going, "Hey, I'm Elvis!"

Through music you learn not to care about the color of someone's skin.

I've never been in the studio where it felt like I didn't have a voice. Whether I was co-producing or producing by myself, this community is the one place where I really see democracy at its purest.

When you ask a songwriter, "What's your favorite song?" he goes, "The next one."