People looked at me as a carpetbagger coming over from pop to country. But it helped because it got me in the room.

When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time.

I'm such a lover of golf, and I've been at the Masters a couple times, and I've been so blessed to get to play there.

There's two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season.

My inspiration came especially in the 1950s through the Vienna Group founded by writer H.C. Artmann. It showed me that if you want to say something, you have to let the language itself say it, because language is usually more meaningful than the mere content that one wishes to convey.

I don't really know that I'm aware of a lot of the inspiration and influence that I'm under, because I didn't have an extensive musically educational upbringing.

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.