When I sit down and play the guitar, I'm 20 years old again.

You know, I write songs, I repair guitars.

Sometimes I make up songs, and they're just strictly fiction. Other times, I draw on things that have happened in my life or friends, women, all sorts of things.

Songwriting is just like any other kind of writing - it's either fiction or nonfiction. You can even get into philosophy and politics, which I've done on occasion.

You never know how people are going to find songs for their records. Sometimes people will hear songs on someone else's record and really like 'em.

I've stolen licks from just about every person that ever picked up a guitar. We all borrow from one another; it's called legitimate stealing.

I'm always doing something that ain't happening, and I'm always happening when there ain't nothing going on.

I always wrote for musicians, especially guitarists. I write songs that people who aren't great virtuosos can play.

All artists are redundant about their own style; they can't escape themselves.

Everybody lives in a city, cause there's not too many people in the small towns who can find work.

No. 1, I'm a songwriter, and I don't really get out and tour.

I'd do the blues all the time if I could, that's what I'm into. But people just don't like to hear it.

I just play my guitar and push my songs and I'd like to keep it quiet.

I ain't got much to say.

Ask any guitar player - it's hard to feed yourself when you're picking for a living.

A lot of people are coming down on people taking old rock 'n' roll songs and making commercials out of them, but from a songwriter's standpoint, I don't mind because it helps pay my rent.

I was an engineer for a long time. I was a sideman guitar player.

I'm an electronic manipulator. Most people think J.J. Cale, he's organic. There ain't nothing organic about me.

I'm a recording studio guy, an engineer, a songwriter and a guitar player, in that order.

I would never ever sing at all if I could get away with it. I had pitch problems, no range. So what I did was manipulate the sound... that way you couldn't tell that I wasn't very good.

All my music sounds the same to me.

I was kind of a sideman. Then I became kind of a singer-songwriter.

I'm basically a songwriter, man. Songwriters are down in the fine print, you know? And I really enjoy that.

If I was strictly an artist, I'd have to learn to dance and get a shiny suit and stuff.

The music is the same if you go all the way back to the first albums I made or the middle or whatever. The thing that's different is the lyrics.

I cut all my early records in Nashville, so I guess that makes me country. I call it country pop, but my love of the blues is in there, too.

I sure love to write songs, but I'm not so sure of my voice.

Playing out in a band all the time at least you made money. Even if you have a hit song, it takes about two years to pay.

I rarely have any contact with the artists who cover my songs.

I didn't have a phone there for about 10 years.

Where I grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, it wasn't the south-east and it wasn't the deep south and it wasn't quite the south-west either.

I'm a Christopher Nolan fiend. I love 'Inception,' 'Interstellar,' 'The Prestige,' 'Memento' and of course the Batman trilogy. I love all his movies.

I think it's important to have open lines of communication and I think the best lines of communication are two-way lines.

As we grow up and we're developing, our ego needs to be contained, otherwise we'd all be selfish two- and three-year-olds, screaming every time we didn't get our way.

As late as my junior year, I was taking Italian at Duke because I thought I was going to have to go overseas and play. Then I had a great senior year and became a lottery pick.

For the most part, someone who is in love with mechanical watches is not going to decide to wear a smartwatch over a mechanical watch.

You always look forward to the start of the regular season. It's like opening presents on Christmas morning.

Growing up, I didn't know anyone that was a watch collector or into watches, but I was always kind of curious about them. Before the NBA Draft, I knew I was going to get drafted, and I wanted to commemorate that by buying a watch.

I feel like I'm a guy who consistently makes the right play and the right reads offensively and that helps my teammates.

As a professional athlete, the onus is on you to take responsibility.

I'm not into trends, but more enduring classics and styles.

It's always a great joy to give back.

I always talk about shooting being broken down into three things. You have to have some semblance of good form. The second part is repetition: doing things over and over again until you really develop a skillset. And then the third part is confidence. But for me, you can't have confidence without having that second part.

Every situation I've been in in my career, you just sort of adapt, and figure out where you can be effective.

Nothing can prepare an 18-year-old for the fishbowl that is Duke basketball. So that was difficult.

Out of all the records, my proudest was breaking Coach Johnny Dawkins's scoring record.

I shoot my highest percentage from the right corner, and it's also the shortest shot.

I've been on teams where you literally don't talk to each other at dinner. Just six guys on their phones.

Generally speaking, you want to put three or four shooters around a dominant center and have him just roll to the basket.

I have this personality where I'm all in on something or I'm off of it.