You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.

It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.

It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs. Take 'Rearviewmirror', we start off with the music and it kinds of propels the lyrics. It made me feel like I was in a car, leaving something, a bad situation. There's an emotion there. I remembered all the times I wanted to leave.

This little four-string songwriting tool started changing the way I brought songs to the group.

We're not going to be the coolest rock stars in the world. We're trying to be good musicians.

I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.

I am not a good enough writer to have an agenda or come up with a message and try to put it into a song. It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs.