Too many times I've heard records from bands who were obviously, like, 'Well, we're at least gonna do half as well as we did on our last record. At least we can count on that.' You really have to keep that initial hunger that made some of your first best songs your first best songs. You have to keep that fire in the belly.

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

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!

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.

It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business.

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.

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