I was regularly advised not to go into music, that I should give up that foolish dream.

I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means.

For me, in songwriting, I have a route I can take. Maybe there's some forks, I can go this way, this way. But I know those roads. I still have the experience behind me.

I think some people would say that I do overwhelm the words with the music, and sometimes thank goodness I do.

I think I'm probably a very sad man wrapped in a very joyful package, and I think I'm very resilient, and I think I'm quite generous, sometimes to a fault. And I'm very bad with money, but I don't see that too much of a flaw.

We have to do much more than believe if we really want to change things.

I never went to college - I barely got out of high school.