Things come to me pretty regularly. There is never a shortage or a backlog

Emerson, Lake & Palmer or King Crimson or Gentle Giant - the worst prog rock references I can come up with. Though I totally loved those groups as a kid.

My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar

And frankly, when I made that record, hit songs were not what I was trying to achieve.

Lately I've been a workaholic. I'm in the studio all the time and I've helped to produce a couple of artists

A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following

I privilege the music over the lyrics