I think with the live shows it's giving you that opportunity to do something on stage that you don't normally do.

Every night I try to look at the audience and treat every audience differently. It's almost like it's a single entity or a person. I always try to treat it like a conversation and allow it to happen naturally in the same way that you would engage in conversation.

I think that in school I was really shy. And even today when people meet me they are shock to see just how not-crazy I am.

It sometimes takes 6 months or more after you've written and recorded it before you can start to enjoy the experience of singing the song.

You go through that stage where you're coming up with the concept, ideas and all that you need to make a record. It always feels like hard labor.

I think with each record, I don't know ... they're like burdens.

The songs that give you the most trouble become your best songs.