I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.

If you're writing songs by yourself, who's going to tell you if it's good or not? But if you're writing songs with somebody else, you get that immediate feedback.

I think that's a powerful thing, to be able to engage your audience and let them put some of themselves into the music.

There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.

I got me a car and I got me some gas,Told everybody they could kiss my ass.

People don't care how you feel. You need to paint pictures, you need to tell stories. That's what people want. They want to be entertained. Then all of the other stuff kind of filters across as part of the whole thing.

We set out to become a band for our time. But sometimes if you do a good-enough job, you become a band for all time.