To be in a band on the road is to have anything and everything you want just by picking up the phone.

By and large, Americans close their ears to anything not in English. That's stupid because there's some great music around the world that we should be listening to.

If you look at the CEOs of some the most successful companies in the world like IKEA, they never fly first class. They always go economy.

Fiscally, I'm very conservative. I don't believe in welfare states. I believe in giving people jobs.

Get rid of the friends who want you to spend your whole day doing nothing with them. They're not your friends. They're your enemies.

There are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant, if you can implement them.

If your songs connect with the fans and they pump their fists in the air and go "Yeah!!" that's when a song really works. That's the electric church of it. The glory hallelujah of it.