For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.

You know more about me than I do about myself, that's probably true.

When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.

It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.

See, to me, rock'n'roll doesn't have any point. It's just fun. It has a million different angles and they're all valid. But I think rock might be a world issue.

I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.