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.

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

I was doing my best Bogart, but I was having trouble getting into her jeans.

People look around you, the signs are everywhere. You've left it for somebody other than you to be the one who to care.

I want to know what became of the changes we waited for love to bring/Were they only the fitful dreams of some greater awakening?

I’m going to be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender.

Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.