If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.

I am not a keyboard person. The mouse is better.

Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat. I know what I'm askin'. I know it's a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.

Don't tell me this town 'aint got no heart

Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.

We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.

I don't feel that one instrument has more weight than others. Any sound that you can produce adds to your vocabulary of possibilities.