I Hope At Some Point

The Hardest Thing To Do In This Business Is To Still Be Around. When Music Changes, When Labels' Resources Have Dried Up, It Becomes Harder And Harder To Continue To Make A Living At This.

Back In College, When I Got Kicked Out Of School, I Was Still In School, I'd Just Written The Song That Got Me My Record Deal. If I Hadn't Gotten Kicked Out Of School I Wouldn't Be Where I Am Now. Three Months After That, I Got My Record Deal And The Rest Is History.

I'm Not Like A Legend That - So I'm Sort Of In The Middle In This Sort Of Gray Area Where, You Know, I'm Creating Music And I'm Not Saying There Isn't An Audience Because There Is Because All Of Those People Go Out And Spend $80 To $150 On A Concert Ticket.

I Was A Nerd Academically. But I Was Also An Athlete And A Musician. I Never Wanted To Be Shut Out Of Any Situation. I Think It Was That More Than Anything.

I Went Back And Listened To The First Three Albums I Made And Tried To Figure Out What Was Special About Them, Why People Keep Going Back To Them. I Think It Was Because I Didn't Know What I Was Doing. I Had No Idea If They Were Going To Play It On The Radio Or Anything. All I Did Was Write Songs, So That's What I Got Back To.