I Don't Want To Be Known For

Indie Record Stores Are As Important To A Touring Musician As An Incredible Thrift Store. I Can't Overstate How Good It Feels To Place An Original Pressing Of 'veedon Fleece' In Your Most Underused Of Shirts And Pack It Into Your Suitcase, Anxiously Awaiting The Day You Get Home So That You Can Play It As Though It Was Your Reward Or Trophy From The Long Journey You Had Just Finished Embarking On.

It's Important That I Get Time To Run, To Just Go For A Jog For About 30 Minutes. It Helps With My Voice, But It Also Kind Of Gives Me A Little Bit Of Time To Myself - And You Get To See A City.

I Think Any Branding For Me Is Band-related. It's Really Weird To Get Used To The Exposure, Because I Am A Naturally Introverted Person, And I'm Not Exactly Social. Occasionally I Can Get Comfortable Enough To Talk, But I Spend A Lot Of My Days Not Talking, Especially When I'm At Home And Not On Tour.

I Prefer To Connect With Fans From The Stage. Like, I Don't Have A Twitter Page, Or Anything Like That. So For Me, That's What The Show Is About. For Me - Is A Way To Interact With Fans; Being Up Onstage And Showing Them, Through Music - Which Is All I Really Know - The Best Way To Say Thank You.

Van Morrison Is Probably, At This Point In Time, My Biggest Influence As A Vocalist. When We Were Making Our Last Album I Had A Vinyl Copy Of 'veedon Fleece' In The Vocal Booth In Front Of Me, In The Dorky Sense. I Think There Were Candles Around, Which Is Really Tacky, But Hey, I Needed To Channel Van The Man!