One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.

I can sing fine and I can play guitar fine, but put 'em together and it becomes a thoughtful effort.

You feel different every day of your life. You just have to create your own space to survive, personally and professionally.

When power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again.

Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about success is you really can't gauge things by album sales.

In '98, I locked myself in my house, went out of my mind and wrote 25 songs. I rarely bathed during that period of writing; I sent out for food, I didn't really venture out of my house in three or four months. It was a hell of an experience. The album is an overview of birth to now.

Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.