Just do exactly what it is that makes you want to do what you do. The stuff I listen to in my private collection, it's what moves me, makes me want to play. I want to make other people feel like I feel when I listen to that music. Whether other people like it or criticize it - even if there's only 10 people on the planet that love it, you're touching 10 people that way.

I'm the guy who will eat something that looks nice when I'm out, but when I take it home in a doggie bag, it'll sit in the back of my refrigerator until it starts to move.

All these child stars grow up and they're knockin' over banks and getting prostitutes. I'm, like, one of the only people I know that has managed to dodge all of that negative crap.

I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed.

I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.

I've been in this business so long, it just doesn't faze me. I know what's going to happen before it happens.

I'm not a big radio guy, I don't listen to whatever is the hip new thing.