Amos Lee

“Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love.”

“I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.”

“I love what I do, so I don't mind working.”

“I don't really know that there's any real rules for songwriting.”

“There's not a whole lot of media interest in me other than just the records that I make.”

“I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.”

“I'm not a mass-appeal artist.”

“I love vinyl, man.”

“You need a strong sense of 'otherness' to be able to create in your life.”

“You never really get a chance to sit down with the people you love, unless you really make an effort to do it. It doesn't just happen naturally anymore.”

“I wasn't a very good teacher.”

“I like down-to-earth people.”

“I don't know anyone who is a writer who isn't influenced by the relationships in their life.”

“I think most of the time when people have big disagreements and big misunderstandings, when time lessens that blow it creates a deeper understanding for both people.”

“The cool thing about being a songwriter, or a writer, I guess, in general, you can take on a lot of different things, experience a lot of different things, just by writing about them.”

“The closest place that I feel like I come to having religious moments is always musical.”

“I do not go on my Wikipedia page. There's just too much weird information on there for me to pick apart.”

“Genre, to me, is not all that important, and it never has been.”

“As I've moved along - not only my life, but my career and things like that - you look at yourself and start going, 'Oh, man, are you still doing what you set out to do? Are the ideals you had still the same?' Sometimes you measure up and sometimes you don't.”

“Understanding where your food comes from, trying to bolster local farmers and local economies and having a better connection to the food around you and the people around you, only good can come of that. I love to be involved with things like that.”