Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.

... Nashville is such a fantastic city, with this great creative music energy. Then there's that Southern hospitality, you can't beat that.

I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!

My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.

As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.

My cousin gave me a twin-neck electric guitar for one of my birthdays. It was amazing. Even though it was mine, I was never allowed to pick it up.

It's a really fulfilling life if you can make your job what you love doing.

I try to stay clear of karaoke because it normally involves an excess amount of drinking.

I hate those people that get up and they're amazing. I think you just have to be kind of wasted to go and do it.

I choice to think positively.

There are things of deadly earnest that can only be safely mentioned under cover of a joke.

Knowledge will appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since by it we reach up groping fingers to touch the hem of the garment of the Most High.

To be happy - that's all that matters.

A whipper-snapper of criticism who quoted dead languages to hide his ignorance of life.

After months of negotiations, Iran has finally agreed to reduce its nuclear weapons program. Which was great until Putin showed up and said, 'Hi, I'm here about Craigslist ad for nukes.'

The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.

The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written.

We shouldn't be too naïve, or taken in by charisma.

Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.