Travelling to different countries is a goal. I wouldn't mind playing huge places if we got an opportunity to, but it's nice to play small places too. Fish was saying yesterday that he doesn't ever want to play stadiums, or maybe he would once, he said.

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

Usually I don't think much in terms of interesting sounds. Although I think I want to get one of those whammy pedals, I forget what it's called and who makes it. It's got a whole bunch of different settings. You can play a note and it will raise the pitch when you push the pedal.

In order to have that incredible groove that makes you dream you have to think not of the groove, but of the dream.

Actually, it's great to play with someone who tries to come up with interesting drum beats because it pushes the music in different directions.

I built all the speaker cabinets myself.

Last tour my bass rig was breaking down every other night. That was a pain. We would get on stage and Trey would count off the song, and I'd play the first note and nothing would be there. Those guys would just roll their eyes.