I tend to think of all the songs the same – I give them all kind of equal rights.

Shouldn’t the low strings be at the bottom?

Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I’ve rewritten it.

I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I’m a lefty.

If you’re asking me to compare myself to other people, I don’t really know what other people are like.

People don’t come to Asheville very often, and they don’t know I’m there. I enjoy it. I like it.

I don’t know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.

I guess any time you believe in God you’ve got to be considered a spiritual person. That would make me a spiritual person. But I don’t really know what that means.

I just sat down and thought, I’m going to write a song today, I’m going to give it a try. So I just stuck it on a tape like everything else. That was just another song.

Some people just come in, do it and they know it’s right. It turns out better than you imagined it was going to sound. When that happens, you take it as a gift.