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.

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

It's like Willie Nelson. You're an artist and you have different styles inside of you.

I'm definitely not ready to move into something else. I'm having so much fun.

If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.

I was really talkative as a child. The priest used to pray for me not to talk so much because I was distracting the other kids.

The Broken Bow group is such a great family and seem like a group of tight-knit people. When I looked for a new label, I wanted to feel I could trust everybody. I wanted motivation to be at an all-time high.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.