Quotes from Amos Lee

Every time I write a song I feel really lucky and kind of surprised. Not surprised that I wrote it, but just surprised that things exist that you don't know about.

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

I'm not into cold weather, I like warm weather.

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.

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.

I wasn't a very good teacher.

I'm not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I'm discovering things about myself that I'd rather not.

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.

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

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

I wasn't a very good teacher.

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

I live a pretty anonymous life.

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

Country artists have advantages all over the place. The radio support is incredible. The fanbase is rabid, all over.

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

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

I don't really hang out with a lot of celebrities.

I love when people are coming up and they're working hard and you can see that they're really focused on the process to their music. I really dig that. As a musician, it's nice to see people who really care about the process.

I can relate to soul, R&B... whatever people want to call me is fine. I just hope it makes them feel something.

I'm always flattered and honored when people cover my music or sing my songs, no matter where it is.

I'm in love with a girl who's in love with the world.

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

There's nothing but spirit in music. That's all it is. Yeah, there's a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter how you approach it, it's all spirit.