I think celebrities suck.

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

i know someday you'll have a beautiful life. I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky. But why can't it be mine?

I learned so much about music by playing this little, miniature songwriting machine [ukulele], especially about melody. The motto is less strings more melody.

I remember sitting in this pool hall with Stone and Chris and we watched - this really old, really classic pool hall - and we were sitting there and it was really rainy out and George Bush came on and started telling us about the [Gulf] war and that we were going and, and the whole thing, and there's part of that in it, when we talk about "I don't question our exsistence / I just question, our modern needs.

I'm optimistic yet disillusioned, hopeful yet frustrated.

This is still a young man's game, so we have to stay young. Music allows you to do that, especially rock'n'roll.