As long as each day comes with a nice fresh cup of Oakland Coffee then everything will be alright.

I have nothing to prove. I just want to follow the music. I love making records. I love playing live. That's it. There's nothing outside of that. I look forward to the weirdness that's in front of us every day.

It's no use analyzing your life the whole time. Those analyses won't help you when you're dead

As long as each day comes with a nice fresh cup of Oakland Coffee then everything will be alright.

When I listen to songs, I can smell a rat. I like songs that speak to me with some deeper truth.

I look at my kids as the Harry Potter Generation. There's a sense of justice about that, in beating Voldemort. It's a classic tale of good versus evil. To have a role model like Harry Potter that says you can defeat evil, but still be a complicated human being. That gives me a lot of hope.

For me, it's important to get back to fundamentally what it feels like to be an American. We all come from different backgrounds, but we come together and create this world. It's like a microcosm for the rest of the world. I want people to feel unity when they come to a show.