Occasionally there are people who are not like me, and I forget that they're more introverted or shy, or just don't want to make a decision so quickly.

You want to be influenced by the world because it has so many cool things about it, but it also has a bunch of bad things about it.

I think when people think of music from coming from Oklahoma, they think of Toby Keith or even Garth Brooks or even Woody Guthrie. People think, "Why do we have to just be about the Bible and about football? Why can't we be about something like the Flaming Lips?" And I salute them! I say, "Well, that's great if you want that."

Maybe there's some unquenchable question that I keep asking the universe that I can't get an answer to.

Keeping perspective and being happy and being energetic and being creative - that's all tied to being healthy.

If you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company and say I have a song here, let's cut a deal that lets everyone walk away feeling good.

Love is the thing that you pursue because it's the thing that gives you all this life, or you believe that, anyway.