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.

Jimi Hendrix was just so fluid. His hands were connected to his soul, you know? His playing was just so emotional. You could feel the fire, you could feel the blues. You could feel the sadness. It's unbelievable.

It doesn't take a lot to get me motivated. I'm a studio rat. When I was in high school and I would walk into a recording studio, it felt like this magical place, this temple, this womb that I could escape into.

If you heard my records and no one told you, I don't think you'd know whether it's a band or one guy.

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.

You can start something, do it, and believe that that's what you're doing, but then the inspiration comes and it's like, "Nope, this is what it is."

When I stopped trying to write songs, that's when I'm able to begin writing songs. You have to just use your life, and the things around you for your inspiration.