How long can you hear someone crying - how long can you hear someone dying - before you ask yourself why?

I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent”s Robert Fisk, but it's hard to find voices like his in the U.S.

Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.

My forays into trying to date girls my own age from the school I went to were all pretty tortured.

The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.

Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels. Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields.

Self-discovery in songwriting, bringing something forth that's instructive to yourself - some of the best songs that you will ever write are the ones where you didn't have to think about any of that stuff, but nonetheless that's what's happening in the song.