I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my time.

When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.

I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time when I'm recording to 2-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.

It might be a meaningless moment, but those sparks that ignite the song.... It's mystical maybe, those magic moments. And to make music for a living, to perform these songs over and over, you have to safeguard those sparks. If you can do that, they'll last a lot longer.

When I was about 15, I picked up the guitar and learned how to play by going through Beatles chords books. I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog.