Thank God I never got in a fight. All of the jock dudes hated me, but all of their girlfriends thought I was nice so they wouldn't touch me. It was infuriating to them.

The collectability of music is something lost in the age of MP3s and album downloads. Holding an album in your hands and having the full-sized artwork reconnects the artist and the listener.

There's no doubt that the ready availability of music online has created a thousand more opportunities than it's destroyed.

I'm always asking friends what new music they're into, and I love showing people new talented artists.

Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.

Home for me is wherever my wife and kid are.

Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet.