“Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as ...” — Ian Anderson Quote

Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.

Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.

If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.

As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.

My mother, a very eclectic listener, had the first Doors album and gave it to me when I expressed interest in the band. It was one of the first records I ever had. As the years passed, the babysitters who used to look after me would bring their Doors albums to the apartment, and that's how I got to hear their later work.

Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy.

I was really inspired by Lorde's second album 'Melodrama,' not so much sonically, although it is an amazing album, but more so just how important that album is. It's her second album and it was so important culturally and to me and my friends, so formative and struck a chord with us, so cohesive.

On our first album, 'Sounding the Seventh Trumpet,' we were listening to more obscure heavy metal bands and hardcore bands.