I worry about financial security, and the older I get the more I worry about it.

I'd been in a couple situations where I'd seen bands realize that they didn't have to get a good take in order to get something that sounded like a song. The musicians are there and they don't quite have it together, and then the engineer says, "Oh! That's okay, I'll just cut and paste the verse!"

For most of the projects I've worked on, I've been entrusted with some degree of musical responsibility, even if it's just like coaching for vocals and stuff.

I think politics and personal psychology and interrelationships - these things are interrelated to me and overlap.

The fact of picking up an instrument and writing a song and expressing yourself publicly has a powerful political dimension.

I'm a terrible drummer. I can tune 'em pretty good, but I'm a pretty bad drummer.

I worry about financial security, and the older I get the more I worry about it.