I'd love to have a hit record. I don't believe anyone that says they wouldn't like that.

I like the process of writing songs. It makes me feel good.

It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it.

I tend to write pretty much by myself. I always did that anyway. I used to write with Ron Strykert 'cause he was the only guitarist and we played well together. We lived in the same place. I would play a certain style and he would kind of dance around what I did, in a sense. I learned from him and also vice-versa. With this band, I think I bounce ideas off everybody. Perhaps on the next album they'll be more collaborative stuff, but for the last 2-3 years, I've been pretty well writing by myself.

I feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth.

I used to drink a lot. I had to stop drinking because it was getting the better of me, and I replaced that with really doing shows.

I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years - you've got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that's what I've been doing.