I think everyone should sell whatever product they want to sell for whatever price they want to sell it for, but ultimately the market will dictate what it is and people will have to charge less money for everything. Record companies have been overcharging people for way too long and now this is the trouble that they're in.

I like visual images and there are certainly other bands that have strong visual images going all the way back to Elvis Presley, but it's kind of like that's never really been my bag. Probably because I'm too shy.

I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.

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

My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn't how people are going to receive them, because they don't know the code.

If I have more creativity that I want to get out of me, I try to find other ways than pursuing solo records so much.

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.