I've had to work very hard, and I don't really have a category or fit into any niche, so each time I come out with a new record, it's like, I'm a new guy.

I've lived my life dealing with everybody. And that's how it's always been for me.

My mother passed at the end of the Circus tour. After that I really needed to take some time and just chill out and get my head together.

We've always just gotten up there and played. We don't have any dancers, we don't have all that stuff going on, we just get up there and play.

I get a lot of joy from playing instruments, and I have a different personality on each instrument. I like to let that come out. I get kind of selfish.

People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it.

A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really.