One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.

Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song.

If it's a good song, it doesn't really matter if it's trendy or not. It will hit.

Every day is getting worse
Do the same things and they hurt
I don't know if I should cry
All I know is that I'm tryin'
I wanna believe in you, I wanna believe in you
So why can't you be, be good to me....

When I get into the studio, it's not about trying to get a good song, it's about whatever comes naturally.

That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.