Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.

I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.

I think taking too long to work on a record you sort of lose some of the feeling, so I write as fast as I can; it's just this manic phase where I'm by myself and or on tour and I write and I write. And I send them to the guys, and we start planning our studio ventures.

When I was kid, they always used to tell me to keep notebooks. I look at my shelves now and it's just nothing but notebooks. And if I haven't gotten an idea but I have time to work, I'll pull one out and I bet there will be five or six sentences that will kick me off.

Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something. I believe in mental health care, but when we call people "crazy," we exclude them from our circle.

What's scary is the unknown, the stuff you can't put your finger on.

Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill.