“I internalize a lot of thoughts, and sometimes it seems like I'm not listening or totally zoned out, but I'm always on a loop of ideas and song titles. I'm definitely kind of a space cadet, but I'm...”

“Fine arts education in public schools is really abysmal. The same emphasis should be put on music, theater, dance - anything creative - that's put on math and science.”

“I want to be as gracious and thankful as I can because it has been a long road.”

“I didn't move to Nashville with any inkling or dreams of getting a record deal. I didn't have those stars in my eyes. I just wanted to take a break, relax, and figure out songwriting.”

“I love dry British humor. I love to sketch in my off time. I love tequila.”

“I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges,I see my father strolling outunder the ochre sandstone arch, thered tiles glinting like bentplates of blood behind his head, Isee my mother...”

“We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in...”

“Id never heard my parents make love. If they made love, they did it silently, like bank robbers, like surgeons.”

“I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.”

“I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes.”

“Texas humor and Southern humor are pretty similar.”

“He loves to hide, but only if you take the time to find him. And while I suspect that's true for most people, only a retard or a kid would admit it.”

“Personally, I was never the cool kid. I was always sort of a bookworm.”

“I was a sports kid.”