I think making the songs is to put strength in the community in some way.

I think the other thing that shaped me a little bit is that I really didn't have any success in music until my early to mid-30s.

You are hearing this song, and you're 16, and it's a song about love, or a girl. And then maybe there's a girl at school that you like. So you're going to be thinking about that girl. That song is sort of about that girl. The songwriter doesn't know that girl, obviously. He wrote it for something else. But there's the specific meaning with the universal again.

Sometimes things reveal themselves to you a little bit. I think it was Joan Didion that said, "We write to find out what we're thinking." And sometimes that happens.

If we enjoy what we're doing, we shouldn't really need a break.

When you get into rock 'n' roll myths, like that Rod Stewart blew his whole band and had to get his stomach pumped, it's ridiculous, but everyone's heard it.

In the end, when you're writing a really good song, it strikes the right tone.