I guess there are two things that make me like songs generally, of ours, and that is if they groove well, or if they have a jam that can go somewhere.

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.

It's really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend.

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

I'm not really satisfied with anything I have written to date.

I like referring to the saxophone and having a guitar lick instead. Same with the cymbals; having the cymbals and not playing cymbals.

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