I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.

But it's just been recently that Nashville has started to feel like home.

Ive always seen myself as sort of this funky, eclectic artist.

I'm a real Suzy Homemaker.

After I found April Barrows, I felt I had found a soul mate. Her stuff is exactly what I was looking for.

I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with

I think somewhere in the back of my mind I've always wanted to make a whole swing album.

One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story.

For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating.

Ive been playing swing chords for a long time.

The large venue gives me the thrill that comes from the power in numbers.

Of all sciences there is none, where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.

Bez blew out a breath and leaned heavily against the bar. "Honestly, D, you're better off busting your subversive cherry with something else. A nice werewolf killing. A vampire blood drive.

Any expert will tell you that if you want emotionally committed relationships then people must be allowed to be true to who they are.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.

I like thinking of the writer as a kind of curator; the collection as curiosity cabinet - in a non-demeaning, non-objectifying sense - but an array, a set of offerings.

It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself.

Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.

Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.

I enjoy doing motivational talks with businesses and other organizations. I really enjoy being with people and encouraging them in the work they do.