I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.

Some artists see a gig as an audience worshipping them. I think it is about having a great time together. I have a part as the singer. An audience has a part. Playing a gig doesn't make me high on myself.

I think it's difficult, if you're a quite private person like I am, to write about your life very intimately.

I think I'm highly loveable.

I think when you're younger, you need to socialize and be with people your own age.

For 'King Cole's American Salvage,' I rode around in the wrecker with a local driver and watched him deal with customers and hook up the cars. I watched the guy who tore apart the cars in the junkyard. I also wrote poems about those guys. I loved hanging around the yard.