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.

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

Mick Fleetwood was one of my first interviews. And if you've ever talked to that dude, he's the sweetest guy in the world - he's just a trip.

The fact that I'm virtually deaf. Any woman who's going to date a rock musician has to be prepared to repeat herself every 10 seconds. My wife asks me where we should go for dinner and it sounds like the schoolteacher from Charlie Brown.

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave.

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.

The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically.