I Say If You're Going To Take

My Mom Taught Us The Serenity Prayer At A Young Age.

Writing Songs And Looking For Ideas Is Like Blinking My Eyes. It's An Involuntary Muscle. I Do It Without Thought.

I Was Raised In Bars. My Grandmother Had One, And When I Was 12 Years Old I'd Go Stay With Her And That's Where I Got To Watch Her Band Play -- She Had A Seven Or Eight-piece Band, And I Would Sit In The Kitchen And Peek Through The Door. I Was Kind Of A 12-year-old Bottle Washer.

If I Hear A Conversation And Somebody Says Something Intriguing, My First Thought Is, Is That A Song? I Write All Year Long, And At The End Of The Year I Pull These Forty Or Fifty Things Out And Say Which Of These Things Do I Want To Record.

It Is My Duty To Be A Father To My Kids.