I'm glad I can do both full-band electric and solo acoustic performances. It's nice to have contrast, so if you get fed up with one, you can just switch to the other one. It's great to go to a town and play an acoustic show, and then you can come back a year later and play electric, and the show's really fairly different. The repertoire will be 50 percent different. The musical energy is completely different.

I have to remind myself not to set boundaries.

Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.

It's amazing what some people read into songs.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs.

I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself.