The reason I did the name change is simple. I wrote a bunch of autobiographical material and I was really enjoying myself doing it, and in two of the….

If they'd said, "Do you want to be John Wesley Harding or Wesley Stace in 25 years' time?" I would have said Wesley Stace, but I wasn't to know..

I took the name originally as a kind of disguise because I didn't want people to know I was about to embark on a s****y musical career that would las….

When I was writing this new bunch of songs, I was singing a lot lower, because they were more intimate in a way. I had to come up with a way to frame….

If somebody had said to me back in 1988 that I'd still be making music in 25 years' time, to start with I would have keeled over with shock because I….

A friend of mine pointed out to me, "Why do you separate your writing and your music?" I got (writers) Rick Moody and Jonathan Ames to do the first o….

With me more than anybody it seems silly having a stage name, and there wasn't any particular difference between me and John Wesley Harding. There wa….

The only problem with conjuring people is they insist on getting paid, unlike a writer who would do a reading for nothing..

The people you might lose are the people who look at a marquee and are like, "Oh, John Wesley Harding is playing. I went to see him play 20 years ago….

I just love putting on a show. I get a tremendous sense of community out of it..

Novels may have taken care of the emotional business for me, which has allowed music to be more emotional for me..

There's nothing I like more than a writer who can sing, or a musician who has a book out..

Aloha Earth, this is Elvis calling. You'll find me in the big house now..

I do find that most fans are aware of my writing career and have known my real name for many years..