You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you can get typecast and have to keep making that same music, and you can change only slightly. It's risky to bounce around and change your type of music.

I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down.

When I was five I had violin lessons.

When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.

You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.

Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.

I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.