Sometimes, you've got to be in a place. You're just another guy. You can just blend in. I live out in the wilds of nowhere, out in Jersey. Even there, there's sometimes problems. College students like journey out there and show up at 11 o'clock at night, on my porch, looking into the door not saying anything. My wife and I are sitting there; it's really creepy.

One thing I've often thought is that I never want to tell anybody else what to do. It's hard enough to figure out what I want to do.

I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a great artist can do.

You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful, maybe they think it's beautiful.

Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass.