My favorite thing is coming up with titles. The majority of the songs I've every written I've always thought of the title before I've written the song.

My Mother set me on the right track, Marty Robbins made me want to write songs, and Jesus Christ did the rest.

Basically it takes me very little time to write a song. If I find myself taking more than an hour to do it I usually forget it, and try something else. I like to work quickly; I never like to waste any time. I never write half a song and come back to it later at all. It all has to be done at once. I lose interest if it doesn't.

Read books, discover the blues and don't Tweet.

Elton John's home is laden with trinkets and books relating to Satanism and witchcraft.

I am a simple vessel with complex overtones, opinionated on occasions but willing to listen. Comfortable with reclusiveness and devoted to privacy and family. Patriotic to a fault and allergic to cruelty, ignorance and bad music.

The worst thing about me is that I'll buy albums and put them away on the shelf and forget that I've got them.