I actually don't go to shows anymore. Rock concerts have lost their appeal for me.

I don't want somebody telling my daughter who she can marry, or what she can do with her body. That's what was at stake.

I think most people start rock bands in their early twenties or teens, but I was almost thirty at the time when the band started really doing anything and it took another several years before people started caring about us.

A person with grace is somebody who's socially graceful or is a classy person, but sometimes you just feel the opposite of that, and you just feel like a jerk and a loser and a weirdo.

Music has got a community vibe to it that pulls people together, and those communities are different in different places.

I never sit and fill a journal with lyrics. Most of the time I'm trying to write a feeling, not a story. I'm not necessarily trying to describe the details of a place or event so much as the feeling of the thing. It is a kind of weird alchemy that is elusive until it feels right.

I'm not saying I'm not a moody guy sometimes, but I think I have a pretty normal balance.