I've got a small, loyal audience, which is great. And I appreciate that. They're there for me every time.

I won't necessarily make new music because when you make a record there are these great expectations on the side of the record company who are going to produce your record, promoters that are going to do your shows. They want you to do interviews, they want you to play shows. I mean, they want it to be a campaign.

This is a particular thing, you know, catholic stories of martyrs who had their head removed and then continued to be miraculous in the last moments of their life.

For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of repertoire. For other artists the writing or recording of repertoire is the chicken before the egg of live performance.

Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.

I don't like to have everything all worked out in my head because there's always a chance of it coming out different than you think it should anyway.

The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.