I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily.

I'd like to think the best of me was still hiding up in my sleeve.

I feel strikingly domestic. We're in our own world with two busses and trucks.

I'm singing what I want to sing based on the emotion of what that day feels like. That's what comes out of my mouth and guitar. That impacts people. They know anything can happen.

I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment.

Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.

If you get half a million, at a certain stage you probably will get 4 million people, if they are able to hear it. The touring thing is unbelievable. It really is amazing from what we did the last tour even to what we are doing now.

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night.

People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them.

I'm not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats.

Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day.

Numb is the new deep, done with the old me, and talk is the same cheap it's been.

I like giving people something they don't want to miss the next time. It's a show with little twists and turns and curves. It has me being silly and stupid and compassionate and completely deep.

I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily.

I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It comes down to being believable. You don't have to be likeable; generally, though, I think I am.

Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.

A man's got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring.

Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.

Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it... and the minute it takes off, I'm not gonna be home for a while.

Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?

I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.

I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.

I don't have anybody telling me what to do.

I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks.

I get recognized somewhere in between like local meteorologist and national meteorologist.

I hate being the heartbreaker. Hate it. If I date somebody and it doesn't work out, it's another nightmare for me.

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.

I just like collaborating.

I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?'

I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain.

I lost my head for a little while.

I love being the center of attention.

I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister.

I quit the media game. I'm out. I'm done.

I really don't want to be a hunk.

I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.

I wanted everybody to like me. I thought I was one shuck and jive away in every direction.

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.

I'm not deluded enough to think that everyone who knows my name is a listener. You know, I hope that part of that interest - part of that public interest - has to do with me still making records that people like.

I'm the only person I know who's got a bunch of money.

I'm trying everything I can not to be jaded 'cause I don't like jaded musicians.

I'm very happy in all aspects of my life.

I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologically important to people when they're famous to be the only famous person they know.

I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.

I've learned to appreciate everything that has been given to me.

I've never been a bad boy.