I Have Drawn A Very Close Bond

If I Hear A Conversation And Somebody Says Something Intriguing, My First Thought Is, Is That A Song? I Write All Year Long, And At The End Of The Year I Pull These Forty Or Fifty Things Out And Say Which Of These Things Do I Want To Record.

There's Some Nights I Can't Remember With Friends I Can't Forget.

I Have Drawn A Very Close Bond To All The Military People.

I Was Raised In Bars. My Grandmother Had One, And When I Was 12 Years Old I'd Go Stay With Her And That's Where I Got To Watch Her Band Play -- She Had A Seven Or Eight-piece Band, And I Would Sit In The Kitchen And Peek Through The Door. I Was Kind Of A 12-year-old Bottle Washer.

Writing Is Not Work. In Fact, Theres Nothing Better. Writing Is Something That If The Music Business Went Completely Away Tomorrow - Radio Stations Quit Existing And Music Quit Being Popular And It Was Old Hat - I Would Still Write Songs.