Neil Young is the prime example, the grand goal, if you will. He's still shredding, and he never lost his credibility.

I've never done an album in the same place really - I like to be able to remember where I did every single one of them .

We went on tour with Phoenix. I don't really know anything about Phoenix I'd heard a couple songs. And I thought, I don't really know if I want to go on this, it's kind of weird, kind of a pain in the ass for us. But everyone was like YOU HAVE TO DO IT, it's going to be so good for your career. And I mean I don't know if it was good for our career but the guys in the band were super huge sweethearts.

I've recorded at home since I was a teenager, and I'm able to sit here in my underwear and keep trying different things until something works. I think if I did that in a studio the engineer would be like, "What the hell is wrong with you?"

When we were in Beijing, they were all "it's an honor, you're playing at the oldest rock club in Beijing". And I was all "oh crazy how old is it?" And then were all: "5 years old."Asia is just very different.

[Making music] only turned into this weird job in the last year or so. Once I figured that out, I was having a blast.

Going on tour, you don't have a lot of time to mull things over. You're just kind of, "Another beer, another show, another song."