God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.

I don't know if it's cool to say this anymore, but I grew up listening to Gary Glitter. A majority of his songs were in that shuffle-blues beat, and I think that's probably why I tend to write like that.

If you go into the eastern bloc countries we are huge, and in Russia. Maybe there is something about the depressing nature of our music and lyrics that some people find an affinity with.

If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I have a real passion for.

I do a cover of a Velvet Underground song, and they were one of the most important bands, for me.

Anything that I write comes from the soul.

Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well.