Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it's all on you. No matter what happens, it's entirely your responsibility the entire time. I like that intensity.

As a child, I was this record collector/listener that would sit in a room and listen to the entire Beatles catalog alone, over and over and over again.

Most of the time, reading through treatments, it's like it could be any band, any song -- it doesn't matter that it's you or your song. The ideas are completely disconnected from the music and the image of the band.

No, my entire life is planned. It's called time management.

When I was maybe nine years old, I listened to the entire Beatles catalogue, non-stop, for about a year,

It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.