I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.

The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.

Your woman pisses you off so that gets in there; that's rock n roll.

I tried to stick with what I knew best, which is writing rock n' roll songs and melodies. I am as passionate as I was when I was 20.

I am a big Pink Floyd fan. That is where a lot of the concept lyrics come from.

My favorite Extreme records were the last two. I can't listen to the first one.

There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.