I have come to believe that anger and grudges are burning embers in the heart.

Sometimes you're up against everybody in the whole world - even your friends and family are saying, "You need a single." You feel sometimes incredibly alone.

People don't realize the limitations of 200 words, and the way they get chiselled down into a song that has to be sung.

Anytime I have an idea, I'll make sure that I put it down so that when we do sit down to write an album, I don't have to dream it all out of thin air. I don't have to be creative on the spur of the moment, or spontaneously artistic. I just take advantage of whenever creativity strikes.

Stamina is the force that drives the drumming; it's not really a sprint.

All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted. Not so boldly charted, it's really just a question of your honesty.

The Seven Cities of Gold always fascinated me. Southwestern U.S. history especially fascinates me. The whole spur of the Spanish exploration of the Southwestern U.S. was the search for these mythical Seven Cities of Gold.