When I have just sat down and tried to write the lyrics of a song, usually about half of it sounds like bullshit. I just have to go away from something and come back to it again later. I do a lot of editing and switching around and putting little pieces together to get the right mood and personality, and it takes me forever to get a song finished.

Lyrics need to be good, but they don't need to be obvious right away.

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

Maybe because I have spent too much of my life in rock clubs. I don't really go to parties anymore either. I'll usually be in the bus by 11:30 after a show.

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.

It's not hard to connect with the music on an emotional level and get inside the songs. It's odd, very vulnerable, and slightly embarrassing to be standing and singing and playing music in front of a bunch of strangers.

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