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• ‟ As soon as I could talk, I was bellowing at the top of my lungs. My parents couldn't get over how weird I sounded - like an old man when I was just a toddler! But no one was gonna shut me up.

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• ‟ I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.

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• ‟ When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.

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• ‟ If I have something inside me that I want to get out, I'll just beat it out on the banjo right then and there.

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• ‟ When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his closet. I promised him I'd learn to play it, but I never did. Then my grandfather died, and I felt so guilty. So I started playing.

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• ‟ My number one style requirement is to have fun getting dressed. Nothing is too old, expensive, cheap, cute or ugly for me.

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• ‟ I grew my dreadlocks 12 years ago because they give me the freedom to roll out of bed and not spend hours on my woolly, thick hair. I get tons of dropped jaws and compliments, so I reckon folks like them all right.

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• ‟ I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.

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• ‟ I'm constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.

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