There's a lot of ways to be honest that don't necessarily involve absolute facts being true. I think that's something I absolutely try to do.

The more you release records, in some ways it takes pressure off you.

I am a really obsessive music listener, and I would look for clues.

There's somewhat of a real fascination with American bands and American mythology in London, so I think we've tapped into some of that. Maybe because of the way the press works or whatever, they have extremely knowledgeable music fans over there. People who will sit there and talk to you about some record that came out in 1967 out of Memphis that you've never heard before.

At forty-one, now I think it would be really cool to have an A&R guy say, "You know what? I don't think you've got this album sequenced right."

One of the coolest things to me about going to a show is you look over, and the guy next to you is sitting there drinking a beer and he's wearing a Donkeys t-shirt. And you're like, "Dude, I love The Donkeys."

I'm not only a songwriter but I'm a massive music fan and I love going to shows. It's different than reading a book.