Being on a microphone nightly has made me better at what I do, made me better able to sing a little bit, but also more confident at trying it.

I made a decision at some point to live a nontraditional life. I've become like, the opposite of a consumer. I just want freedom. I don't want stuff. I don't want clutter. I just want to be able to move freely. I want to be good to the people I love. But I don't want stuff. I just want, you know, love and big ideas.

If you wait four or five years between records, it better be a masterpiece, you know? And if you keep putting them out, you're saying, 'Hey, here's 10 more songs'.

If I'm stuck, I'll sit down and read. That's a big thing.

The critics and hardcore music fans, those are the people you have to get to first, so we're really happy about it.

I can still sing most Eagles songs, even though I never bought a record and never liked the band.

I really want to write a novel. A few years ago I went so far as to do the cliché thing and rent this house in upstate [New York]. I still have the story, but I got 15,000, 20,000 words in and it was like, This is falling apart. I can't figure out.