The willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.

I lost my voice. I'd never had to cancel a show before and I had to walk around with a pad and a pen, writing things down.

Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.

There are two things John and I always do when we're going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.

It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.

There's nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn't exist before - I won't compare it to sex, but it lasts longer.

I think the idea of getting out of a traffic jam and getting out of work each week and going and doing all this stuff would be really exhausting.