Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.

There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really well.

I've realized, you know, having turned 40, that rest is just as important as work. In fact, it's equally as important.

Everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking. Busking, you learn people, you learn about reading people. You learn about reading the atmosphere of the street. If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. It's almost like you get to know personality types, just by watching people walk past. You get a sense for things.

Relationships can be about yourself, they can be about you and your god, you and your people, you and your family. It can be about a lot of different stuff. And it is.

If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.

What happens to us all, I think, when we pick up a pen, is that we just become snobs.