I don't chase what everyone else is looking for. Being creative is all about you.

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.

The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.

Music is like having a conversation. All musicians inspire each other, and they're all geared to play something that matters.

The devaluation of music and what it's now deemed to be worth is laughable to me. My single costs 99 cents. That's what a single cost in 1960. On my phone, I can get an app for 99 cents that makes fart noises - the same price as the thing I create and speak to the world with. Some would say the fart app is more important. It's an awkward time. Creative brains are being sorely mistreated.

It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.

I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.