I'm playing to the sort of people who like the same records.

If anyone comes along, I'm more than happy to welcome them, but I'm not interested in world domination.

The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones.

What's so funny about peace, love, and understanding?

Going to Nashville to meet the in-laws was the first time when I'd been in America and not been seen as some sort of eccentric character with a cute accent.

I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.

I loved Christmas. We had a really great time. But there wasn't - it was all - you had to be happy with, you know, an orange and a couple of walnuts, you know, in your stocking.

The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.

Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it.

As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle.

Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine.

The only real conflict you will ever have in your life won’t be with others, but with yourself.

Often what we struggle with becomes the foundation of our greatest success.

I believe that life is hard. That we all are going to walk through things that are hard and challenging, and yet advertising wants us to believe that it's all easy.

Do you. Just focus on being the best version of yourself that you can be every day, and don't compare yourself to anyone else or worry about what they're doing.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

I'm not wild about those twenty-four hour marinades

I don't see the direct correlation between my personal life and the novel I'm writing until I'm at the end of the novel or very close to it.

Truth reveals itself in beauty.

When many different voices send you in different directions, you can't listen to your own.