First and foremost, I want people on concerts to have a really great experience away from the negative press and negative stuff that you see on the news and Facebook. I don't even like seeing people's cell phones. Let's have a human experience and rub up against each other, you know.

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

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

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

Happiness is a road traveled, not a destination.

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.

I think that's the most important thing you can do to be a real person - is to be honest with yourself.