Occupation: Singer-Songwriter Birth: July 9, 1975
It's kind of ridiculous that I find inspiration in just getting away from everything. But when you've gone through it, you realize that it's the enem….
Can there be enough books to answer all your questions?.
Life is simple unless we find a way to make it complicated..
I love the Arctic Monkeys . Who doesn't? I'd love to see them live, but haven't got round to it yet. I never get to see bands because I'm never in th….
Deadlines and things make you creative..
You can't be an actor in a small town-you have to go to New York or L.A..
I'd got accepted to the seminary in Wisconsin, and I was gonna become a priest, but the last second I thought, 'I'll just go to public school.' I had….
I have very little interest in the bottom line or signing artists to help make the label profit. That's a lucky, unique position to be in, but it all….
I probably could have a hip-hop-style entourage of 40 people coming with me to the club or whatever, and I don't do that. And I think sometimes maybe….
It was really hard to find people to come over and play guitar and sing and write songs together. So that turned me into a songwriter that way, just ….
A songwriter's heart is pure when they have the desire to keep digging deeper into music. And invariably, when you dig deeper it always leads you int….
I won't let love disrupt, corrupt, or interrupt me..
I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me..
Your passion must be tempered with patience. Maybe long-suffering patience would be a better word..
I've always worked to find really deep meaning of song and also at the same time having it covered in sugar, so it can be taken two or three differen….
My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents..
The day that music is taken for free by the majority is the day that the phrase "sell out" doesn't exist any more..
Nashville has always felt perfect. I don't think Third Man Records could exist in any other town that I know of in America. Anything smaller or large….
It's hard for me to play seated theaters because people tend to sit down and get a little bit complacent, so it's less energy. It's just very dry and….
People have sort of a problem trying to see an end to a situation as being positive or romantic..
Some guys are afraid of "fashion" even those this isn't really fashion. It's more "style". A lot of guys don't want to look like they care too much. ….