We can look you in the eye and talk to you about life, heart, love rock'n'roll, whatever, but we do not have the moral authority to tell people how to vote or what to do with their bodies. We are just a rock band.

It's important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media.

One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.

I had such a big mouth for so long that it doesn't faze anybody anymore.

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.

Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?

Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.