If You Get Up On Stage And

It's Always Nice To Be Able To Capture Your Life's Experiences In A Song And Hold The Emotion In That Way.

My Dad Was In The Army. The Army's Not Great Pay, But, You Know, We Moved From Army Patch To Army Patch Wherever That Was. The Army Also Contributed To Sending Me Off To Boarding School.

I Try To Tell One Lie In Every Interview. It Keeps People I Know Amused When They Read The Article.

I Used To Have An Ebay Addiction. I Was Really Good At Selling Stuff. My Sister Needed To Get To A Funeral In Ireland - The Airlines Were On Strike - So I Listed Her On Ebay: Damsel In Distress. Guys Were Outbidding Guys To Be The Hero And Help Her. A Guy Who Owned A Helicopter Won.

Being Sent Away To Boarding School At Seven Is As Great An Inspiration As Any Songwriter Could Have - To Be Taken Away From One's Family And Locked Away For 10 Years. It Does Create An Incredible Intensity Of Emotion.