I Don't Make My Living Making Records.

You Get To Bring Your Own Sound System When You Play An Arena, All The Lights And Visual Stuff, Which I Think Is Really Cool. There's Something About Those Old Arenas, Where It Feels Larger Than Life.

I Tend To Name Albums After One Of The Songs.

I Started Playing Bluegrass With My Family, So There Were The G, C And D Chords. I Was Playing A Martin Acoustic Because That's What Carter Stanley Of The Stanley Brothers Played. Then I Got Into The Really Raw Blues Of Hound Dog Taylor And Started On Electric Guitar.

The Modern Video Games Kind Of - They're Too Three Dimensional.

That Culture, Of Looking At Catchy Music As A Negative Thing, Is Weird. It Has Nothing To Do With Me, Or The Music I Was Into Growing Up. The Stones And The Beatles Only Tried To Write Hits. Every Motown Song, Every Credence Clearwater Song - They Were Trying To Write Hits.