These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to.

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.

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

I followed those highway signs and I've run down those thin white lines.

Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring, and the junk man pounds his fender. Where the veterans dream of the fight, fast asleep at the traffic light, and the children solemnly wait for the ice cream vendor.

Let the music keep our spirits high, let the buildings keep our children dry, let creation reveal its secrets by and bye.

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.