I am a thief, I am a liar, I am George Bush and my son is an asshole.

I think what happens is when something becomes successful, then a lot of people take credit for it in such ways that it takes credit away from you.

It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.

If it's a good cause, I'll play just about anything.

So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.

There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful.

I didn't respond to the kind of sarcastic tone. It felt like some of the Sarah Palin speech was written as though it were a Saturday Night Live newscast. Maybe that's because she looks very similar . . . She's got her Tina Fey thing going.