The jam stuff doesn't appeal to me in general. My newfound love for the Dead came from Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia's songwriting, not the elaborate guitar solos. I'm a song person. Once it starts to break out of that structure and become loopy, it's uninteresting to me.

I wish I had a better range, but I really have a super-limited one. Barely a tenor, dips into baritone - that's about it.

Prog-rock and concept records and some ambitious projects were kind of anathema post-punk. They were destroyed with the advent of punk rock. You don't necessarily need to have a degree in music composition to play in a rock band anymore, which is a great thing.

As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now.

It was a nice relief to be able to work on individual songs.

An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck.

No-one wants to hear anything spoken in earnest anymore, unless it happens to involve unrequited, teenage love.