It's amazing what a haircut and forgetting to shave will do.

I never want to play a show where it feels overly programmed, processed, and all that. For anybody that comes to one of our shows, the goal for me is to make sure that's their show. That nobody else is going to see that show ever again. You know what I mean? I try to make it different every day.

I think every good song tells a story, as ambiguous and vague as it may be. And if you know what a song is talking about, it can only help your performance.

I'm admittedly a record guy. Singles and I are a different beast. I'm definitely an overall picture thinker.

Some of the best rock shows I ever saw were those appealing to all your senses.

I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education.

I always believe that every song tells a story, so the last thing I want to do is edit out like the meat of the story. I would pick songs based off a), whether I felt like I could do anything with them, and b) whether I felt like I could keep the story intact. And then you sit in with one of the piano players and one of the vocal coaches and kind of work out your arrangements that way.