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

You can either go to the gym because you want to lose weight, or you can go to the gym because you like how it makes you feel when you're running.

At forty-one, now I think it would be really cool to have an A&R guy say, "You know what? I don't think you've got this album sequenced right."

I don't really pursue writing songs for other people. I guess one of the things I always think about is a good line in a song should be something I can hear myself saying.

An album doesn't mean as much to a lot of people now, compared to just songs.

I graduated high school in 1989, and there was no alternative rock radio, and there wasn't really good college radio you could get on a car stereo. Once you get a car at that age, you're spending all the time you can away from home, sometimes just driving around aimlessly. Listening, or not even listening, but subconsciously soaking up this classic rock barrage.

My wife is very happy about me keeping all my music in my pocket.