Nobody gets between me and my microphone.

I think that music has been a great help to me and this has been confirmed by every psychiatrist I have seen. I would probably be dead if not for music.

I suppose the danger when you have a job that involves writing is you can be a bit isolated.

That's my feeling - that real God and religion are two different things and that religion is trying to obscure what God really is.

The trouble when you have a job like mine is it's your social life as well, so I need to actually [find] something to do in my downtime when my kids are at school.

I really believe that God and religion is two different things.

There's a standard of songwriting that, when you start immersing yourself in those types of songs, it raises your own bar as a songwriter. There's also simplicity in the songwriting. It's much harder to be simple than it is to be complicated.