It wasn't my natural inclination to get into writing protest songs.
Frank Sinatra said this great thing, that singing isn't about singing in tune, or great technical singing. It's about making people believe in the story you're telling.
For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.
I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.
I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
I was a magnet for people who want to take advantage of people like me, who think they're part of this life but they're not.
It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropologysociology - looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does.
When I get up at five in the morning to go fishing, I wake my wife up and ask, 'What'll it be dear, sex or fishing?' And she says, “Don't forget your waders. '
I'd been through crappy day jobs and stupid garage bands. I was determined to make it as a musician.
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.