When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

If it weren't for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

Whenever I say I made a record in the garage, people just assume that I have, like, a Lear jet parked in there or something. But really there's old luggage, a couple of bikes. It's big enough to put one minivan in. That's it. No dartboard. I'm so not macho.

The word ‘grunge’ became a household term, and fashion runways were filled with flannel shirts and long underwear. Oh, how we laughed… Every now and then when I’m feeling a little nostalgic, I put on my ‘grunge tuxedo’ - flannel shirt, long shorts with long underwear underneath them, and a pair of Doc Martens - and dance around the house to Tad records.

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do.

The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone's cool.

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.