A great rock band searches for the same kind of combustible force that fueled the expansion of the universe after the big bang. You want the earth to shake and spit fire. You want the sky to split apart and for God to pour out.

Music doesn't tell you where to go. It says, go find your own place. That's what it told me.

Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair. The night's busted open. These two lanes will take us anywhere.

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

I think that, when you're writing your songs, there's always a debate about whether, is that you in the song? Is it not you in the song?

I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it.