If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?

I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.

I returned to upstate NY where I just laid in bed for days with a fever that just wouldn't go away. After more of this, I grew increasingly sure that this was not simply the flu!

Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.

I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it's cool.

I think Philadelphia has been underrated over the years as a musical region.

I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.