I tend to write, either myself, or I sometimes write with a co-writer, my friend that lives up the road. It's usually a relatively solitary thing, but I do like coming up with ideas.

It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it.

My mother features quite heavily in a lot of my songs.

You don't want to get worse at something.

I'd love to have a hit record. I don't believe anyone that says they wouldn't like that.

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

People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same. We've obviously made some changes. When we started, it was all about food, clothing and shelter. Now we watch 'Top Chef', 'Project Runway', and 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.