We've been in that situation where you're just so happy to be doing what you love to do that you get taken advantage of.

Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.

We want to evolve; like the Stones.

I have really great, great parents, and they were very supportive of me.

I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.

The values my mother taught me were like, if you're going to do something, don't half-ass it. I remember her literally saying that to me. Like the first time I ever heard the term half-ass was coming from my mother's lips. I was probably 8 or 9. If you're going to do something, go ahead and throw 115 percent at it, and if you get 100 percent back, well, there you go - you're perfect.

My idol when I was growing up was Michael Jordan the basketball player because of his work ethic rather than his talent and because of what he went through to be as good as he was.