When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.

I honestly think that with every song you release you have to keep winning your own fans over again.

I'm always at the opposite end of the spectrum, the opposite of hipster culture, and I enjoy that.

I guess if you split the difference between the U.K. and the U.S., you would get Canada. But that's just due to proximity. Just because of distance, we get a lot more cultural spillover from America.

The ability for a woman to orally satisfy somebody in a rock band, that's important to a rock 'n' roll musician.

Sometimes I write about things that never happened to me that wind up happening to me. When you put things out in the universe, sometimes they wind up coming true.

You never know what your parents are going to say when you tell them you're getting married - especially when it's with someone they haven't met yet!