There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.

Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.

I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.

Things started to get out of control when I began reading that I was a superstar.

I don't build no heathen temples, where the Lord has done laid a hand. There's a well on the hill, let it be.

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.