I'm pretty confident that people are going to come along for the ride. If they don't, tough.

I'm the band leader. That's not to say that the other people are my minions - they all put in a tremendous amount of personality, and push the music in ways I would never expect.

You find ways to push yourself into the sound through repetition. It doesn't stay the same. It morphs constantly.

Playing an old record doesn't interest me at all. It's exactly the opposite of what I want to do.

I'm more interested in pulling out strands of joy from both myself and the audience. I'm not saying the music or songs are "light," just that when they're performed with the correct commitment it's a source of real pleasure, for me anyway.

At a certain age, children are total Id - they're anything but beautiful little flowers. That always interests me. The place where the ego and the superego start, and where guilt and socialization and morality takes place, the true root of it.

I don't throw my body down on the stage at all anymore because I'm sure I'd snap like a twig.