I write songs for myself, songs come out of me, I get enjoyment out of it. Basically, that's it - I get enjoyment out of my songs, I know they're good songs, and know that the people around me who I respect are all getting up on these tunes, and the feedback is really good, so that's it. There are people who will receive them, and don't receive them. Not in a spiritual sense, but in a commercial sense - do these songs treat people, and so far they're working.

Playing with my grandfather, grandmother and my parents, I came to music pretty naturally.

I don't sit down to write a song, per se.

Oh, I steal things all the time. It's just something I do. I stopped caring a long time ago.

I wouldn't really say I'm a jazz guy, which I'm not.

I liked back in the sixties where you'd turn on the radio and go 'Oh that's Hendrix, that's Creedence Clearwater, that's The Doors, there's The Grass Roots, The Monkees, there's Big Brother.' You could just instantly hear it and tell. But in the eighties and nineties there's no way you could do that.

I think if you don't have it [desire], you're not going to be pushed into anything. You've got to want to do something.