If you're trying to connect to people with music - it's more of an outward process and a lot of times musicians can be very inward.

It's important to me that people feel connected to the band through the music, you know? I don't want it to be wallpaper. I don't want it to be background music. I want it to be clear: This is the song. These are the words. If you feel the same way as I do, sing it as loud as you can.

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.

Be someone's light when they are hopeless.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

When digital technology started becoming the norm, you've got 50, 60, 70 years of recordings on tapes that are just deteriorating. Like, a two-inch reel of recording tape won't last forever. It dissolves. It will disappear.

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