I find it to be the ultimate backhanded compliment when you are compared against yourself.

The long arm of the law slides up the outskirts of town.

It's what I do. I don't deserve any awards for this, it's just music. It's just writing songs. You sit down, you write a song, you record it. You tour and play the songs live, dress them up a bit differently, or dress them down.

I feel like a juggler running out of hands.

It's a dangerous game that comedy plays. Sometimes it tells you the truth; sometimes it delays it.

I get very frustrated by this term 'genre exercise.' I mean, what exactly is that? Genre is not really relevant when you are writing a song; hopefully you are doing it to explore something, to create something, and I don't agree that any of my albums are genre exercises.

I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music.