I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates.

I have had UFO experiences, and yet, at the same time, I can easily be convinced that none of it is true. It's hard to say whether or not you're a believer. I've been interested in that subject matter, like lots of people. Perhaps foolishly, I've allowed some of that stuff to creep into my music.

I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.

They're pretty good actually, Hall & Oates. I gotta give them credit. They got a lot of toe-tappers.

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.

It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go.

You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor.