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

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

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

At the end of the day, if you follow the music, it'll take you on a really, really great journey

A turtle does come in it's own bowl

There's no way you could get me onstage with someone that I didn't like. No way. I would never do that. We have our gripes and stuff like that. All bands have their drama, but life is too short to be miserable around somebody that you don't like.

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.