Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride.

I'm not sober. I haven't done drugs in 3 1/2 years, so I call myself clean.

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.

I sang in choir as a kid.

Bowie's obviously my biggest influence.

Processed pig is white trash meat. Some people call it Spam.

To be appreciated by a whole 'nother generation of fans, all of a sudden discovering you, it's kind of what I did with the classic bands I love - the ones that influenced me.