Too many bands practice in their garage, play a couple of shows locally, and expect opportunities to appear from the sky. Bands have to push, work, grind, and struggle to make it happen on their own.

The Beatles never get old.

Ideas are really what interest me in producing a band, if I can bring something productive to the project.

Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war.

I like that about human nature, that people are always striving to do better, and find something new.

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.

My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.