I Grew Up On The Lake And Spent Most Of That Time Outdoors. As A Musician, I Travel Widely Around The Country And Talk To A Lot Of People, From All Walks Of Life. That Experience, Combined With My ROCK And ROLL Roots GIVES Me Something Of An Affinity For The Underdog. In Many Ways, The Environment Is ALSO The Underdog - So, It's An Easy Fit.

When I Was A Kid, GETTING On Lake Shore DRIVE From The SOUTH SIDE To Go Downtown Was Magical.

When I Got To Salt LAKE City, In The SUMMER Of 2010 - I KNOW It's A Cliche, But MAN, It's The Truth: I Was Just A Kid.

I Don't Come From Lake Wobegon, And That WORLD Is Not MINE. It's Not That Funny To Me. It's Funny To Other PEOPLE, And I'm Not JUDGING It, But The World That I Come From Is Not Considered Funny By Other People As Well. There's So Much Pain In It.

The LAKE Was Always My Orienting Point When My DAD Was TEACHING Me How To Not Get Lost. The Lake Is East, So You'll Always KNOW That. It's A WEIRD Thing Where You Can Kind Of Feel Where You're At In Chicago, And When I Was Downtown, I Was Like, 'Oh, It Feels More Open Over Here. That Must Be East.' It Felt Like A Little Secret Thing.

When You're WORKING On A Lake And It's DARK And Cold Out And You Can't SEE What's Underwater, It Is Freaking Scary!

I Loved Watching The BASE Of Those Thunderstorms, The Billowing Tops Of The Cumulonimbus, The LIGHTNING That Effortlessly Lit Up The Lake And The Sky. It Was Gorgeous, So Energetic. I Was In LOVE.

I Went To The LAKE DISTRICT To See What Kind Of A Country It COULD Be That WOULD Produce A Wordsworth.

It's Funny In The U.K., Where I'm Not REALLY Known Because I NEVER Did A SOAP. My ENGLISH Cousins In The Lake District Think I'm Not A Real Actor Because They've Never Seen Me In 'Home And Away' Or 'Neighbours.'

'Swan LAKE' Was My FAVOURITE PIECE Of Music When I Was Younger, And I Never Had A CHANCE To Skate To It.