To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.

We had a wonderful time with this kind of grunge awareness, where suddenly rock was cool again. People wanted to head loud guitars. It was a great time, and I'm glad we were there. But the gimmick part has worn off.

Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do.

I've seen foreigners really shift on their view of America, and that's hard for me to take.

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

The reason I don't play any of the old songs is because I really honor my old band, and I think that those songs are best served within the context of that band.

Around the mid-'90s every hair guy who would have been in a hair-metal band got his tattoos and suddenly decided he was alternative. It just became like a thing.