My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.

If there's one thing I'm good at, it's gathering people together to do something fun.

What's the last thing a drummer says in a band? 'Hey guys, why don't we try one of my songs?'

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

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

I'm not like a voracious hoarder who has 50,000 albums of vinyl stacked in a storage space in the San Fernando Valley. But I do have albums from the last 40 years of my life.

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.