I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody.

As soon as you start making a record, things start getting lined up: the promotion, possibly even a tour.

I'm just trying to do things that are interesting for me.

I've spent the last year and a half going through a very public separation, hiding in hotel lobbies.

To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that’s a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.

I don't want to preach, but I really think the rudiments are very important to developing your drumming skills. Many of the patterns I've recorded came from things like paradiddles, flam paradiddles, flam triplets... They might be boring to sit down and practice, but not when you apply them to the drums.

I suppose you can't take kids into consideration all the time, but I just wish there could be a bit of flexibility.