I think The Beatles are the lasting influence on me, even more so than Dylan.

We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.

Like trillions of others, if it wasn't for Bob Dylan, it would have been a different musical landscape. Pop music wouldn't have been my thing at all. I did also grow up listening to The Beatles, but I never thought of being a Beatle.

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.

Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.

Coming out's the hardest part, when you're Queen Elvis.