You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and four-chord rock-and-roll that I call the the semi-blues.

Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.

I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music.

Obviously, the music and lyrics are in me, but if I let myself get in my own way, I do. I empty out and let it come, and then the music spirits take over.

I know that sounds cliché, but mostly from my own experiences and things I see around me. We're all human beings, and a lot of the things I write about are pretty universal things.

Obviously, some people are thick, and they're not gonna see what they don't want to see.