You think it's all written, but it's not. There's always another way to twist those three chords around.

When I plug in my guitar and play it really loud, loud enough to deafen most people, that's my shot of adrenaline, and there's nothing like it. That's what it's always been for me - to be the flame the tribe dances around.

If you take your last album & try to copy it, then thats sure to hell the way to stagnation. And that makes me bored...and if I'm bored then the music is boring and so are the band!

I know that the gift that God gave me isn't gonna just wither up and die unless I let it die, so it's a matter of me having the faith that it's gonna come out. Whether or not the public's gonna like it is another story. But I think as long as I keep changing and sticking to what I really love - and the same goes for Steven and the other guys in the band - then people are gonna like it.

The really pop country stuff can sound a little bland because they put in strings and horns and all of that.

There was a time I thought I couldn't enjoy rock 'n' roll unless I had heroin in me

I'm glad that I never ended up killing myself, though I came close more times than I would like to admit.