But it's only after you've played it on the road 20 or 30 times that it becomes really finished and polished...and you realize what it means, and you get the phrasing right.

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

I collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald.

There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.

A song is what you fall in love with first, but then I think a band's ideals and a band's sense of fashion and a sense of how they treat people is what you fall in love with afterwards.

I can take criticisms but not compliments.

Einstein said that he never could understand it all, the planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face.