Sharing music is not a crime. It shouldn't be. There should be a deeper meaning to making music than just selling downloads.

I'm happy that I have my family, and I'm happy that I had Virginia, where I grew up, to retreat to any time I felt overwhelmed. Whenever there were times when I felt like the rug was being pulled out from under me and I was floating in this crazy space, I would stop and go back to that neighborhood and realize nothing's changed, really.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.

It's funny, there aren't too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There's a few - the really brilliant ones.

There are times when I feel like I'm a traveling minister. I'm trying to go out and get kids to pick-up yard sale instruments and change the world.

Just the other day someone threw a bra duct-taped to a tennis ball. I just stood there, playing guitar, thinking how this was totally premeditated. Some girl sat around inventing a way to get her bra onstage from 40 rows back.

You can make yourself the greatest singer in the world or the best drummer in the world with the aid of technology.