I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.

By the time you have your protagonist attempting to assassinate the Pope, you've sort of signaled that everything is on the table.

You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.

In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it.