I don't want to spend a month and a half in a studio with music I don't like, and fortunately I don't have to.

When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs. A Frank Sinatra album sets a certain mood, just as a Clash record sets another.

Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.

I live to play music, and hang out with my wife and kid, and hang out with my friends, and discover the world. Read books, watch movies, see art, see the world, meet new people.

I don't think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life. You can fall in love at 60; you can get rejected at 80.

I think that happiness is a great thing to strive for, but very difficult to maintain - people are always striving for something different, and something better.

The strongest human emotion is probably love. I think it's universal. I think that across language and country and time and everything else, probably love.