Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at some of their six-figure executive expense accounts. All those lawsuits can't be cheap, either.

I think that there's a lot of good will that exists between musicians and the people that support them and listen to them.

My highest aspirations as a songwriter are that people would sing my songs or know songs I've written sometime in as far into the future as I feel comfortable seeing.

I still have a lot of faith that there's very few people who are savvy enough to actually produce a good sounding copy of the record.

I don't really feel like you're making a record unless you pay attention to it.

With some bands, there's a fear that if people do other things, the band is going to change and not hold it together. That's kind of sad; if you love someone, set them free, right?

I always listen to records that I've been a part of with a grain of salt.