When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it.

One of the great things about Taylor Hawkins is his…shirtless body, really.

I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It's inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can't replace the magic of four people in a room playing.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.

I guess it was exciting that every time I pulled up to the gate of my house, I wondered if someone was going to jump out of the bush and stab me in the face.