Sometimes something will come along, and it feels easy and sometimes you'll get 85 percent there on a song and the last 15 percent will elude you for three years.

I see rock music as the best example of modernday storytelling that exists in our society. Songs are narratives that help the listeners cope with the reality of life that can't be easily spoken about in everyday conversation. It is a hugely powerful process of helping people find themselves through music.

When you're just shagging girls, you can talk about it, but once it gets real, then you don't.

But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club.

Sex is funny and love is serious.

I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me.

Sometimes something will come along, and it feels easy and sometimes you'll get 85 percent there on a song and the last 15 percent will elude you for three years.