You have to have a work ethic and you have to be educated in what you're doing. You have to take it seriously. It doesn't mean that everything you do has to be serious. But you've got to have the tools.

There's only one thing that's certainAnd that's everybody, everybody's hurting

Of course, I came up around music and fame, but this is still my first time experiencing it all. I'm still going through it like anybody else goes through it. But I'm still doing something I've never done before.

I'm waiting for my kids to grow up and get into the Offspring and look at me like I'm a total candy-ass.

Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.

Folk music is not for a select group of people who feel that maybe he taught them about this music and that it belongs to them. It doesn't belong only to them. It belongs to everyone who's interested in the blueprints of good songwriting.

Music is something I really have a need to do - I don't seem to be able to stop