When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence.

Some of our stuff ends up looking too corporate. I'm going to be a lot stricter from now on.

I really didn't study any music. I just picked it up real quick.

I was hanging out with Jonathan Richman last night.

For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.

A lot of what you do is about how you look. You're a good-looking guy who plays music, and you can't do anything about what happens because of that. If people say, "He's cute. I'm going to go buy his album," hopefully they'll like the music, too.

When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.