Desert Island Top 5 albums (i.e. you can only have 5 albums to listen to and yes, there is a cd player and unlimited batteries on the island).

• Todd Snider - Near Truths And Hotel Rooms
• Black Keys - Thick Freakness
• Bobby Bare Jr - Bobby Bare Jr's Young Criminals' Starvation League
• Califone - Quicksand / Cradlesnakes
• The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street

What is it like interviewing yourself?

It is a little bit weird, to be honest.

What are your biggest musical inspirations (or things that inspire your writing)? 

I'm not sure, the inspiration to write seems to come and go. One thing that has probably helped the most is learning to strum a bunch of other people's songs, because once you have hundreds of slightly different chord progressions embedded in your head, it becomes easier to randomly stumble upon your own song.

What is your favourite and least favourite thing about the internet?

I pretty much like everything about the internet. Even the bad things are not so much to do with the internet, and really more to do with bad things about humans and our culture. My biggest fear is that the powers that be will slowly take away the freedom of The Internet while we are all too distracted by an episode of Jersey Shore. And while we are on the topic, why don't Sammie and Ronnie just break up already?

You can take one book and one movie from the present and you can put it in a special time machine mail box that will send that book and movie back to your 16 year old self (and don't worry, the book and movie will not disappear if they are sent to a time before they existed - the time machine mail box has been specifically designed to deal with this situation).

What book and what movie would you send and why?

• Movie: I would send myself High Fidelity and attach a note that said “This is how you will turn out. If you are ok with that outcome, then don't change anything. If this outcome frightens you, change everything”.
• Book: I would send myself High Fidelity and attach a note that said “This is how you will turn out. If you are ok with that outcome, then don't change anything. If this outcome frightens you, change everything”.

Name one song you wish you had written instead of whoever actually wrote it.

Ooh La La by The Faces. I can't think of a song I enjoy more. And what greater truth is there than 'I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger'?

For reasons unexplained, amazing artists sometimes never get heard. Who deserve more love than they currently get?

I think browsing around this site is a pretty good starting point for that, although it really is a much bigger problem than one site could attempt to deal with.

You can only have one thing for the rest of your life, which do you chose: cigarettes, coffee, wine, beer or ketchup?

Seeing as how I ask this question to everyone else, you can probably infer that I think about this situation a lot. My answer has probably changed a few times over the years, but I think at this moment it would have to be coffee. Plus, I know my girlfriend would bring the ketchup.