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By the age of 17, for me, we had got an recording contract, and, boom, I was gone.

Before I had a record deal, I was living in New York and playing anywhere I could, from somebody's house to an open mic to coffeeshops.

I have started to record some demos so hopefully in the near future I can play live.

Then I loved the fact that we were actually recording live.

It only took me six months to get a record deal, but it took me 20 years to have a hit.

I never sought out a record deal. It caught me with my pants down. I was just a musician doing my thing, I didn't even send my records out.

We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.

When you record, you live with what you recorded for many many years, but when you play it's just an hour and a half and then once it's over it's over.

I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.