I like to let the songs speak so that they can go through some kind of rebirth as you play them.

I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do.

I tend to write pretty much by myself. I always did that anyway. I used to write with Ron Strykert 'cause he was the only guitarist and we played well together. We lived in the same place. I would play a certain style and he would kind of dance around what I did, in a sense. I learned from him and also vice-versa. With this band, I think I bounce ideas off everybody. Perhaps on the next album they'll be more collaborative stuff, but for the last 2-3 years, I've been pretty well writing by myself.

Most people remember me for a couple of tunes.

In Scotland, beautiful as it is, it was always raining. Even when it wasn't raining, it was about to rain, or had just rained. It's a very angry sky.

I love going up the West Coast of the U. S. because it's one of my favorite parts of the world to tour.

Sometimes there's a general arc that you want to try and get better the longer you do something.