A band is a great way to destroy a friendship, and a tour's a great way to destroy a band.

If you're in a bar and a certain song comes on and the vibe is just different, it evokes the kinds of things that you want to feel, and if music can do that it's a very special thing.

A band is a great way to destroy a friendship, and a tour's a great way to destroy a band.

I don’t shake at the site of alcohol anymore. I don’t feel the need for it. If anything I’ll get stoned. I always told myself if it got to the point that it was affecting my songwriting and music that I’d stop. And it did get to the point.

Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?

I think you can only get closer to satisfaction but you never fully arrive.

The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would say no. It is what it is. I say better that than an urban war zone.