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

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'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.

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

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.

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.

I can never turn a tour into a vacation.