I think Americana music is music that is generally more singer/songwriter oriented. It has more to do with the songwriting. The music, it's more like stories set to music.

Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.

Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.

I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.

I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out.

Marketing is the devil.

If you love somebody let them know every day.

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

You want to know the hardest thing about being smart? What? I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense.

You WILL eventually become what you think. Whether you succeed or fail is determined in your mind long before we see it play out in real-time.

He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.

Basically, I'm a romantic.

If you want to be happy, you will be.

Advisors are generally brilliant theoreticians but wretched practitioners.

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.

You don't need fancy sneakers to run fast

As sunbeams stream through liberal space And nothing jostle or displace, So waved the pine-tree through my thought And fanned the dreams it never brought.

It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads.

The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.