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.

I started playing bass for the same reason everyone else does – I’m a lousy guitarist.

Sometimes you need coffee, and sometimes you need a Bloody Mary.

If you start planning too far ahead, the next thing you know you forget you're living today

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

Music's awesome, it's the closest thing we have to magic.

I love our country. My dad served in the army. I always grew up with a song sense of belonging as an American. But I was also in the counterculture and I was coming from a place of fearing the police. So I was anti-establishment, but also loving your country. It's kind of an ironic sort of upbringing.