“I like to believe a true fan of music or an artist has a genuine respect for what the artist does and has a distinct understanding of their actions. In that buying an album they are helping the artist to continue making music. It’s hard because everyone wants something to be free.”

I think music piracy is forcing many people to look at the live aspect of the record industry as an income and in many ways that’s what sets apart good music and musicians from the fly by night pop sensations.

My motive has always been just to be who I am, and play what I love- if that doesn’t get me anywhere then at least it wasn’t because I tried to be something I’m not.

What I love about the tours is the day to dayness of it all.. you meet so many people and travel so much in such a short period of time and it’s always so concentrated and focused that it stops you thinking beyond the box too much. I love things that absorb you completely.

I like to think illegal downloads only do real damage to the endless amounts of careless pop music though.

I love playing music – and live especially – and I love being on the road. It gets in your blood.

We’ll show the fire how to burn.

If I wasn’t a musician… I think I’d just be endlessly traveling.

Keep your head up, keep your heart strong. Keep your mind set, keep your hair long.

I’ve been worryin’ that we all, live our lives, in the confines of fear

The best thing is I can say ‘I’m working’ when I’m having a cup of tea and a cigarette and fiddling on the guitar.

I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don’t mean that everyone can write poetry – it’s an art, a craft.

One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else.

Something that I’ve always loved and appreciated is the chance to see something about someone’s character.

If something is incredibly difficult to connect to, and painful, then I have to do a lot of work to connect to that and not joke around or lose sight of my job.

Whereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that’s respectable for adults to read.

And often times it gets manipulated, sometimes intentionally, by pulling things out of context.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

All the things I thought I was – simple and plain and sometime funny – are very small words.