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

When I was five I had violin lessons.

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.

The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.

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.

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

My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.