My favorite venues are the 2,000 seat theaters, like the Warfield. If there was a Warfield in every city, I would play it. That's all I would do. I love venues like that.

Daniel Day-Lewis is my favorite actor walking the planet right now. He never ceases to amaze me.

I pretty much built a band out of the most incredible guys I could possibly find. I didn't really want a six-piece band, but it just ended up being a six-piece band because these guys are all awesome.

We've all had our thing. I listened to the Monkees when I was little kid.

Theaters are great. They're designed to sound good, not for basketball.

Oh, welcome to this world of fools, of pink champagne and swimming pools, where all you have to lose is your virginity. Perhaps you'll have some fun tonight, just stick around and take a bite, of life. We don't need feebleness in this proximity.

I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing.