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.

You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.

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.

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

The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.

I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.