You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.

A lot of people play to impress, but the really gifted ones play to move. That's the greatest point of ever doing this.

So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.

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

My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best stuff when it's all over the map, when there's a couple traditional things, a couple pretty rocking things.

At the end of the day, all people want to do is hear a great singer sing a great song. They don't care about what vocal changes it went through. You can't screw up a great song and a great singer.

I do not like being famous. I like being normal.