I like the process of writing songs. It makes me feel good.

You don't want to get worse at something.

I used to drink a lot. I had to stop drinking because it was getting the better of me, and I replaced that with really doing shows.

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

I feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth.

I sit around and play acoustic guitar - usually acoustic, sometimes electric, occasionally piano, but more often guitar, just trying to come up with tunes. Ideas kind of pop into your head.

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.