I hate being the heartbreaker. Hate it. If I date somebody and it doesn't work out, it's another nightmare for me.

I've always said I've got the coolest fans, and I brag about you like grandchildren when I talk to other artists.

In a time when everything can be next day and ordered and put on credit and paid for, music to me is promise, all promise, very little realization. It's the promise of walking into a room with a guitar and not being sure you will leave with an idea that will take, not being sure it won't slip away from you.

Sometimes I wish that I was a bong hit, you'd let me in and you would love every minute.

I remember playing the guitar through the amplifier facing out the window of my house onto the street in the summer time - that was social media in 1992.

I'm not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats.

I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologically important to people when they're famous to be the only famous person they know.