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My parents were enthusiastic fans of 'Sammy's Hill.' But they think 'Sammy's House' is a better book.

So I started to relax and would work on my act eight hours a day, sitting at a desk writing at my grandmother's house, and I would put on Richard Pryor Live on Long Beach and would play it like a loop and think and write.

Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.

I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I was kind of perplexed by the idea of how I was going to sing and play... because at that time, we hadn't really thought about asking someone else.

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.

I wrote two plays before I was cast on 'The Neighbors.' They actually got published, which was cool.

My wife grew up loving country music, so I always run songs by her whether I wrote it or if somebody pitched it to me.

'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.

Sammy and I got together and it was like we hadn't missed a beat.

I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.