When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.

The best songs I write in 20 minutes.

I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them.

Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?

Some of our stuff ends up looking too corporate. I'm going to be a lot stricter from now on.

It's better when you have your wife with you, more fun.

For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.