 But I'm just having fun playing and giving Botox injections to the older songs. |
| I think I do better when things are a little tougher. |
| I have complete freedom, and there's no way to get pigeonholed or bored. What could be better than that? |
| I really didn't have any plans to record prior to doing My Own Best Enemy. |
| I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about. |
| And to any new fans we made along the way, I say... welcome to our party. It's just starting to get going. |
| People take songs so literally. |
| I've never written a song that I thought was a hit. |
| I've always loved groups like U2 and Coldplay. |
| So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy. |
| I can't wait to front my band with these new songs and play for fans, but I've decided to keep my day job too. |
| It never ceases to amaze me that I get to do this for a living. |
| I understand that, but this disc shows the type of music that I've always liked and wanted to make. |
| But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997. |
| I've never, ever in my life enjoyed playing live the way I am now. |
| I don't think I've ever laid out a batch of songs that pick myself apart the way that these do. |
| As a songwriter, there's nothing better than winning Song Of The Year. But I couldn't really celebrate, because it wasn't right. Luther wasn't standing next to me, to receive the award. |
| It's funny; Luther and I have written many songs together, but we've never written songs in the same room. |
| When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested. |
| One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every light bulb and ordered up a bunch of stinky cheese and put it under the mattress. |
