You never know what your parents are going to say when you tell them you're getting married - especially when it's with someone they haven't met yet!

Sometimes I write about things that never happened to me that wind up happening to me. When you put things out in the universe, sometimes they wind up coming true.

Any artist that is even surviving right now is a dark horse because things change pretty fast. You're a superstar one day and wake up the next day and you're anonymous. To be successful in any way is beating the odds right now, I think.

I'll never be the best guitar player.

When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.

Too many times I've heard records from bands who were obviously, like, 'Well, we're at least gonna do half as well as we did on our last record. At least we can count on that.' You really have to keep that initial hunger that made some of your first best songs your first best songs. You have to keep that fire in the belly.

I would call myself more spiritual than religious.