I like to have a peek, see what the audience is doing during the opening act, because it gives you a clue and gives you a good feeling of where you are - the air can be different in different places.

It's like everyone I have dinner with, I'm having an affair with. Who was it I met the other day? Minnie Driver! She seems charming, but that's the only time I've met her.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes on.

You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do.

I don't watch much ESPN. Unless they have soccer on.

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.