The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song.

Live High, Live Mighty, Live Righteously

I think more obvious to others, is that I'm most vulnerable on stage. Even though I know which songs I'm going to play, I try and keep it loose and base my stage time more on what the audience is requesting of me.

If i were to lose my memories, I would rely on music. There is so much of my story embedded in each.

You come out of a store and they give you seventy-five cents change or something, rather than drop it I would always place it in the community. Sometimes I'd flip it into the hat of a busker or give it to a homeless person. But what I most enjoyed was putting it on a windowsill or on a bench seat or somewhere where I knew that the community would get it.

I'm always thinking about the next record. I've got like 20 different themes and then I'll scratch the themes. It's a learning process.

Everything in life influences my music. I've always used songwriting as a means to share what I think is profound.