When you listen to most of the records that really had an impact on you, they always seem to be from a different era.

All my lies are only wishes / I know I would die if I could come back new.

Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at some of their six-figure executive expense accounts. All those lawsuits can't be cheap, either.

I don't believe every download is a lost sale.

I think that there's a lot of good will that exists between musicians and the people that support them and listen to them.

I spent a fair amount of time editing the lyrics and allowing the song to kind of evolve. ... anytime there's anything worthwhile, it certainly 'feels' like it happened on the spur of the moment, but it's a composite of lots of spurs of the moment, hopefully. And over time, you catch up with those, and then you have a full set of lyrics you've thought of and you feel comfortable singing.

I'm usually pretty happy. I don't ever really get disturbed in any way, or feel like I need to go back and change something.