A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.
The only time I ever appeared in the 'Enquirer' was for a piece about people who let their hair grow gray. I guess I'm not much of a wild child.
At the time, we thought it was a nice way to say something unique about the group to make us different from all the other bands kicking around in London.
I'm always amazed by people who blog all the time and tweet all the time, and still get things done. I don't know how they do it.
I went along and basically learned a few of the songs they were doing at the time, which were quite a few of the songs we ended up doing on our first album.
I just like to switch things up all the time. Like when it comes to singing, I try to find a different character for each song.
'I'm Yours' was written effortlessly in about 20 minutes' time, and I honestly thought it was more of like a kids' song, and I didn't do anything with it for years.
Once you've made a record, you don't need to make it again. It's done, and it's out there forever, a moment in time that encapsulates whatever was happening in that moment.
I fix things all the time. Every time I do a solo, I re-check it and correct things that don't hit the mark.
Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
I was either going onstage or going into an interview or getting on a plane. You can't really feel everything fully when you don't have the time to process.
It took me a long time, but I don't feel as anxious about stupid things anymore - or perhaps they've just been replaced by more complicated stupid things.
Going to Nashville to meet the in-laws was the first time when I'd been in America and not been seen as some sort of eccentric character with a cute accent.
I've always felt that, although Truffaut was greatly revered and admired, at the same time, in terms of film and how much he loved film, he was underestimated.
Sometimes I journal three pages, sometimes I journal thirty pages, but I'm writing all the time, and whatever's happening is happening in real time for me.
Once you establish a foundation of knowing what the greatest recording artists of all time were... Wouldn't you want your kids to know this stuff?
Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and they don't look so ugly anymore.
I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too.
Teen pregnancy went way down in the '90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.
I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.
