I don't want to impress somebody, I want to move somebody. Say the most with the least.

I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.

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.

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.

There ain't no future in the past.

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