Manhattan's always fascinating, too, just a big, stinky, smelly conglomeration of numbered avenues and streets, but it's just got a vibe that's hard to beat. I shouldn't like it, but I do. I can't put my finger on it.

The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy a beer.

Humor is an amazing way to talk people down off a ledge.

You see mock death in movies every day, but when it really happens, you're not used to it. Most things in life, you get better the more that you do them, but this is one of those things you don't really want to get any better at.

I saw the Stones three years ago at the Wiltern Theater in L.A. and that was mind blowing.

Even Crazy Horses is a good song, by the Osmonds. I've known many bands who have covered that. It's just a great song. I bought it in a brown, paper bag because I didn't want anyone to know I had it.

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.