More Than Accepted, It's Encouraged For Rock

When I Write A Song, I Always Start On Acoustic Guitar, Because That's A Good Test Of A Song, When It's Really Open And Bare. You Can Often Mislead Yourself If You Start With Computers And Samples And Programming Because You Can Disguise A Bad Song.

I Live In Santa Barbara. My Wife's American, And She Lived In England For 11 Years And Then Told Me She'd Had Enough.

God Knows Why - No Pun Intended - But Every Time I Write A Song, I Feel A Need To Touch On Religion.

It Creates A Conflict Of Interest - What Songs Would I Use For Me, And What Would I Use For The Band.

When You First Sit Down To Write The First Song, Until You've Maybe Got Three Or Four Under Your Belt, It's Always, To Me, Like A Mountain To Climb. You Look At That One Blank Piece Of Paper And You Think, `god, How Many Songs Do I Have To Write Here?' It Always Feels Like Pressure.