If you were to come out and hang out with me, just having fun at a nightclub or a party, that's kind of the version of Harland you'd get - silly, kind of always saying wacky things.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you write a song, and you go into a restaurant, and there's a guy with a piano singing and he's playing piano, singing your song, or you hear it at a wedding or at an airport... it's fun!
I knew I loved playing bluegrass, so I'd end up down there on Sunday nights at the bluegrass jam.
I do have an outsider's complex of getting made fun of. I was made fun of as a kid, and I don't have the stomach for it.
Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday.
In terms of the creative side of it, it's really been a thing where you come up with the funny stuff is usually at a bar or out talking to people or whatever.
I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.
If you have a surreal life like I do, you've got to have fun along the way.
People talk about alienation in the city. Diners are a place where you feel comfortable, an extension of your house.
I'm all about shrimpburgers, reading, and going to the beach.
I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.