The phone conversation where I haven't had a smoke, it's like trying to talk without using adverbs.

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

The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball.

No music is going to stop the war. What's going to stop the war is a large amount of body bags, or a large amount of people in the streets, protesting it before it starts.

I've never been a calm, midrange type person.

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

If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.