I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone away.
The fans own the records and listen to them and love them. It becomes the soundtrack to some part of their lives, and we don't control that. To me, that's what's exciting about what we do.
No matter what, I can't sound like John Lennon. But I can do Tom Jones.
When you're out on the road touring and touring and then making records, you're just constantly looking forward, constantly working. You don't really stop to look at where you are or where you've been.
I got a GED based on Catholic school seventh-grade education, really. I didn't make it that far.
I really had to come to the conclusion, the sort of humbling conclusion that, guess what, I'm no different than anybody else: I've got to sort of ask for help - not something I ever did, ever. And then part two of that is, like, accept it when it comes, and, you know, believe what people tell me.
