As music becomes more computer-based, it's lost some emotional impact.

I've said for years to wives and mothers, you must start to see yourself as Sarah Connor. You must equip your children with the information they need to survive an ever-changing world.

There's 40 or 50 songs that nobody's heard that I've done in between albums. There's a whole evolution from Midnite Vultures to Sea Change that's never been released.

When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.

When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.

Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll all take care of itself.