Fame freaks me out. Do you just wake up different? I don't know how to scale it back if it gets too crazy.
Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.
Obviously, I don't live and die by it, everything my horoscope says. But I feel like there's definitely something to it.
I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.
It's hard to remember a time when I wasn't writing.
My parents have always had a great sense of humor. And I really appreciate good humor in songs, witty lyrics that sneak up on you and then you listen again, and say: 'That's so funny.' John Prine's songs have always had this really witty tone.
