A lot of people don't listen to the albums. They just listen to the singles.

For me, L.A. was, and is, a very creative place to be.

The Beatles had some juice when it came to distortion, but Clapton was finally able to break through those early studio engineers' fear of overloading. He defined the sound that guitarists spend the rest of their lives trying to get.

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

I think we're just a garage band that got lucky. It's the enthusiasm from the audience that keeps it going.

You can always pound out demos and send them to record companies, but most of the successful bands I've seen are the ones that can sustain themselves.

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.