I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.

Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction.

I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale...

I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time.

The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music.

It's the stupid details that my heart is breaking for.

My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials.