I have to play as much of the game as I allow myself to get the music heard. But it's not unlike the rest of the world, so I'm not as up in arms about it as I could be.

If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.

The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.

Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.

I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned.