The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.

The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.

The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.

If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about.

It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia.

I feel like I've spent the last five years of my life on the road. It hasn't affected my songs but it's probably affected everything else about me. Obviously, the more you travel, the wilder the things that keep happening to you, the more likely it is you'll get complete strangers knocking on your hotel room door.

When I start writing songs, and they come easily, I'm always very suspicious. That usually means they're reminding me of something I've already done before. When the songs become unsettling, and I feel anxious about what I'm doing, that usually means it's going to be more interesting later on when we actually record the stuff.