Elvis was the reason I picked up the guitar.

The leaves that are green turn to brown. And they wither with the wind. And they crumble in your hand.

There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.

How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.

I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion.

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.

Although I was able to study music with teachers, I never studied lyric writing. I read poetry, and I read other lyricists. But they were never writing in the style or the form that I was interested in.