What I've learned over the years is that the craft of songwriting is trying to take the personal and make it universal - or in the case of telling a story, taking the universal and making it personal.
People don't realize the limitations of 200 words, and the way they get chiselled down into a song that has to be sung.
You have to know when you're at the top of your particular mountain, I guess. Maybe not the summit, but as high as you can go.
Rudimental snare work is something I've always loved.
Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to play music that I liked, and even when I was in cover bands when I was a teenager we only played cover tunes that we liked. That was the simple morality that I grew up with.
If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke.
