Playing live is about going for it .. it's about bringing it ... you should see a bunch of people trying out stuff, actually performing, instead of learning the record and recreating it note for note. I can't play the show the same way every night .. I really need to be in a creative environment, every night or I'll go nuts ... my manager accuses me of singing just long enough to get me to my next guitar solo - which is true.

I hope I'm at least half the dad that he didn't have to be.

Rock Band never got anybody a date. Never.

I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.

Anytime you do something from the heart, people just know it.

Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.

It comes down to building your own world out here on the road. It's who you surround yourself with. My band and crew are really positive guys.