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.

There are records that you just sink into. They coincide with what you’re going through and become an ally. If our records do that for people, that’s the greatest compliment I could ever receive. That’s one of the reasons making music is so important to me, because there’s a very strange emotional reach. For me—more than books or movies or other things—music is like a mainline to your heart.

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

Once you do have a child you want to talk about every detail of it. And it is really boring to all your friends and it should be.

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

You gotta lean towards the things that make you like yourself. Forget everything else.

A different drumbeat or some vocal overdub could completely transform the song.