Pastoral Resources

I love my songs, let's not get crazy here.

I love the fact that 35 years later, I still hear my songs on the radio.

I just like simplicity. I like simple songs, I like simple chords, simple vocals, simple lead guitar. I just like simplicity. That's just the way I like it.

I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.

Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.

In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it.

Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.

The songs are about things that we were thinking and we wrote 'em down, and when you listen to 'em, whatever you think it's about... THAT'S what it's about!

Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers.

There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.

Sometimes, I write '60s or '80s style pop songs.

Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs.

I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.

Writing songs is super intimate. It's a bit like getting naked.

The words of the songs speak for themselves.

The spiritual quest was always the predominant aspect of my life. It's always been there. But there's also an incredible passion connected to it; it's not just a dry investigative process. I have been extremely emotional about it, and that comes out in the songs.

Songs like Reach and S Club Party are pop classics. I'm really proud that I had a part in them.

I've just built a studio in my mama's old bedroom, which I thought was fitting; she died last year. We've recorded nine songs recorded in there already; we're sort of just chipping away.

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.