We didn't have a movie theatre until I was about nine, so I just didn't see them. But, once I got into movies I loved them.

These days and times you can't do eclectic records. In the '60s you could, but not anymore.

If someone is talking to you and tells you that you ought to do something, and you can tell they mean it, those are the scary people. Those are the people you want to watch out for.

I'm not a TV junkie outside of sports and history really and stuff like that.

I generally have lyrics first, but you can't help that when you're writing lyrics you start to get a melody in your head. So they come kind of simultaneously.

The audience, that's who I care about.

Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.