My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who was singing what song or who wrote what song.

Any way that you can get the end result is valid, whatever it takes.

What makes that song, I think, is how stark it is.

I play Texas Hold'em on my Blackberry. I have amassed a fortune on that. I have almost 30 million dollars from playing. It is unreal.

It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.

The words you say never live up to the words in your head.

I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone away.