Biography

The movie Back to the Future (1985) inspired him to play guitar.

When he was seventeen, he was suddenly stricken with a cardiac arrhythmia that sent him to the hospital for a weekend. The trauma of the incident sparked his songwriting and he penned his first lyrics the night he got home. Shortly thereafter, he began suffering from crippling panic attacks that only subsided when he was twenty-six and, even now, he keeps a Xanax (an anti-anxiety drug) with him, just in case.

Wrote his Grammy award winning song "Daughters" in the shower.

His favorite song of his own is "3x5", from the album, "Room for Squares".

His parent's ages are 19 years apart

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

Connecticut's where I built the parts, Boston's where I assembled them, and Atlanta is where I sold them to people.

I love coconut, because when you think you're done eating coconut, 25 minutes later, a little piece of coconut comes out of the back of your mouth, and then you say, "Hey! It's more coconut!" I think any food with that kind of determination needs a little respect.

I am beginning to know what it feels like to be a woman. To have people looking at you all the time. And I'm sorry ladies, I had no idea! But people are looking at me all the time. It's like I have musical boobies!

[crowd cheers] "That was a good response and I'm not going to ask you to do it again. There's nothing I hate more than going to a concert and the guy says 'You having a good time?' and you scream your head off and then the guy says 'I can't hear you!' and I'm like 'The fuck you can't!' I absolutely hate it when guys do that. So I promise you I'll never make you do that. If you scream respectably the first time anyway."