Everything in my life is a fragile decision that somebody else made.

When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music.

I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.

Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn't feel like he wasted his pocket money.

Everyone from the pope to some hobo thinks, "I'm a human being. What am I doing here?" You can't get carried away with fame and fortune and all that. It's all nonsense. The whole pop-star side of it is all fun and good, but you don't get anywhere without putting in the hours. I get so fulfilled when we play a song live that we spent hours working on. It's all cool. Fame is something to have fun with, but you shouldn't take it too seriously because it is bollocks.

Well, I don't like the word 'rock star,' the two words, 'rock star.' Not even 'soft rock star. Not even limestone star. I don't like those words.

I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood.