I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

In the beginning, there was a kind of energy that - like an urgency to express myself, and the songs just couldn't be held in. But I think it changes, the nature of how that - what that energy is. And I need to court the muse in a much more serious way.

I was in chemical jail.

In the old days gigging was everything. The whole of life was about gigs. Everything was about waiting for the gig and then doing the gig and going nuts and then afterwards the party and all the stuff that goes with it. And then that party continues through your twenties and thirties. I'm now 51, and it's still very much in my blood, but I'm really hard pushed... the gig is the party for me now.

I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.

Winter, spring, summer, or fall, all you gotta do is call, and I'll be there, 'cause you've got a friend.

I was a functional addict.