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My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.

The way I look at it, they're all part of my musical diary, and I can listen to any one of them and it will bring up memories of what was going on at that time.

Because they're my stories, they're my version of events of the past three years. But I really hope people can hear their own stories within the songs and they can become our version of events.

The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.

All of my songs are autobiographical.

The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.

After playing so many songs in churches for eight or nine years, I've learned what songs people react to. Then I just had fun with the arrangements. That's how this album came together.

I have a whole lot of songs.

My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own.

I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.