Someone asked me if I was a method actor - I loved that! I needed to know what it felt like to lose everything just to do the Bad Day video! I could really feel the angst!

I stayed involved with music my whole life. I was always playing with other people.

I realized the more I made the music for myself, the more successful I was becoming.

I write everything. I have that control issue with my music. That's why I'm not in a band.

I was doing stuff that for me was sort of more about playing real music.

Well, I'm very dyslexic, so I can't read music. It means I never know where I'm at so it's different every single time. I know when it works though. I might end up doing a bosa nova version of Bad Day when I get to Australia!

I was so dyslexic as a kid, and still am, and music was such a great form of escape to me. At school I'd keep my head down and try not to get beat up, and then I'd get home and music would be like a drug to me.