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I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm just still writing songs and what not.

It's not my style to be thinking about what a record is while I'm making it: I just write songs.

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

A lot of writing I do on tour. I do a lot on airplanes. At home, I write a lot, obviously. When I write a song, what I usually do is work the lyric out first from some basic idea that I had, and then I get an acoustic guitar and I sit by the tape recorder and I try to bang it out as it comes.

Sometimes I'll write without the guitar or the piano, but most of the time I'll be playing and just improvising some words. And when I get something that sounds good, a line with a story in it, I'll try and tease it out and figure out where the story is going.

When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.

I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.

All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.