When you're playing festivals, you only get a half-hour. It's like a meat market. You don't get to be artistic. You don't get to play music. It's called a showcase for a reason.

I think I have some very meaningful relationships with people; we all do. At the same time, I recognize that everyone is following their own heart; there's been people who have left my life, and I don't have a problem with that. This is a transitory world; we're all spirits just looking for love and finding it and holding on.

I don't care much about politics. That kind of witchcraft I stay away from because people end up dead. I'd rather die for music.

Lyrics are my racket; music is play - the fluff stuff.

I wouldn't claim to know what another person is thinking. I can imagine it, but it's my interpretation, and I try to make that clear. It's my vision of what I think their life is. I don't think there are empirical truths in that regard.

This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.

A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.