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.

I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth.

I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind.

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

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

When people start writing songs for award shows, there's a very limited palette you can use. You end up not sounding like you. You end up sounding like somebody else. You end up getting what the record company thinks they can market.

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