Getting on stage and performing and standing under lights is such an unsettling experience - in a good and bad way - but it's the only place I can go to feel comfortable.

I can never turn a tour into a vacation.

I can only write songs when somebody gives me some water to swim in. Otherwise, I'm a fish on the beach.

I'm doing a little freelance work, and I think everybody's trying to take their minds off rock and roll for a little while and get some perspective.

The last thing you want to do is write songs about being in a band.

Trying to make it and get people to respect your band, being a cool band-all of that stuff-I think we've arrived at a place where we have kids and everything is in perspective and it doesn't matter.

A song is a song and, if I am emotionally connected to do it, whether it is sad or not sad, I am going to chase that song.