Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day.

Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing.

I've never done anything because I thought it would look cool.

A man's got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring.

Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.

Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.

They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.

Ladies, if you want to know the way to my heart... good spelling and good grammar, good punctuation, capitalize only where you are supposed to capitalize, it's done.

I like giving people something they don't want to miss the next time. It's a show with little twists and turns and curves. It has me being silly and stupid and compassionate and completely deep.

I'd like to think the best of me was still hiding up in my sleeve.

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

I've realized you can use a fork as a spoon if you use it rapidly enough.

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.

You make a choice in your life, and it affects your life in all the ways, good and bad.

I've never been a bad boy.

Sometimes I get so bold and I'm so confident about what I'm doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because it's a really liberating feeling to experience what it's like to not care.

I hate being the heartbreaker. Hate it. If I date somebody and it doesn't work out, it's another nightmare for me.

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It comes down to being believable. You don't have to be likeable; generally, though, I think I am.

I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night.

Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?

What I've learned in my life, it's a very interesting social study for me, to go back and forth between being the guy at home and being the guy on the road and being the guy in studio and being the guy in the interview. The environment around you has so much to do with your character, and when I'm home, my character really changes quite a bit.

No matter what I do, I'm going to earn it.

I'm trying everything I can not to be jaded 'cause I don't like jaded musicians.

I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.

I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.

When you're just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage.

In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me.

Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.

I get recognized somewhere in between like local meteorologist and national meteorologist.

The night I was recognized for 'Daughters' at the Grammys was the night this record started. I knew I had bought the time to learn everything I needed before I started this one. 'Continuum' is not a shot in the dark, it's not a guesstimation.

I just sort of lost my head for a little while.

I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.'

It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.

I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.

I lost my head for a little while.

There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.

I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain.

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer.

I'm very happy in all aspects of my life.

Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.

I love being the center of attention.

I'm singing what I want to sing based on the emotion of what that day feels like. That's what comes out of my mouth and guitar. That impacts people. They know anything can happen.

People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them.

I'm not deluded enough to think that everyone who knows my name is a listener. You know, I hope that part of that interest - part of that public interest - has to do with me still making records that people like.