Of all the songs that I've written since I was 15 or 16, every song is different every song is special, it happens in a different way and I like that.

I am, I said to no one there and no one heard at all, not even a chair.

All my songs are based on melody, which is retrieved from my Jewish heritage. Melody will always exist no matter what the rhythmic changes there are.

The music is key. It has the power to transport you. I go from being a slightly insecure, shy kind of a person offstage, to this super-confident, motivated, entity onstage.

When I need my wife or when I need companionship or someone to talk to, I need it, like, now. So my wife will have to give up whatever she's doing at that moment to tend to my needs. And in the same way, I would tend to hers. That's not such an easy thing to do.

Songs are life in 80 words or less.

As a songwriter there's nothing more exciting than the unknown, the new and different.