All my religious beliefs are based on Star Wars.

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

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.

Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.

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.

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

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