[Early on,] the attitude was that what I was doing wasn't music.

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction.

Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll all take care of itself.

When I did "Top of the Pops" for the first time, Ace of Base was one of the other bands, and I have a memory of them on a small stage next to me in the TV studio. A memory of their performance is burned into my mind. Seared.

My whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche...it's one of the reasons a lot of my generation are always on the fence about things. They're afraid to commit to anything for fear of seeming like a cliche. They're afraid to commit to their lives because they see so much of the world as a cliche.

I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.