I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.

That's at the root of the human interaction: fair trade.

I never seemed to fit in. But it made me try to strive for things ten times harder.

In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.

Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.

I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.