I didn't think I could go onstage and play unless I had a beer to loosen up. Well, if it was only one beer to loosen up, I'd probably still be drinking today.

I've come to realize that you live on through recordings; they're like a musical diary, a window into somebody's soul.

Sometimes when a record's done, I'm satisfied and I won't listen back to it for a while 'cause I'm usually pretty tired of the songs. Then I've got to learn them again to play them live, and sometimes it takes a while to realise it's a really good record.

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

I think that... the age of just slapping songs into movies, that's done.

I never envisioned what I was doing as part of a career.

I have seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven't.