Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.

I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

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

Forget what life used to be, you are what you choose to be. It's whatever it is you see that life will become.

Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, Id like to study piano.

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.