It doesn't affect me because I look at the internet as the new radio. I look at the radio as gone. [...] Piracy is the new radio. That's how music gets around. [...] That's the radio. If you really want to hear it, let's make it available, let them hear it, let them hear the 95 percent of it.

Pearl Jam is a band I have a lot of respect for. Nirvana and Sonic Youth I feel the same way about. Mumford & Sons, My Morning Jacket, Wilco, Givers, and Foo Fighters are just some of my favorites. I respect bands that give me something of themselves that I can feel. ("Posing" bands turn me off generally speaking.) It all has to do with a feeling I have about them. That is what music is to me, a feeling. It's similar with people too.

It's a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down.

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle for where we're going. There's something ahead worth fighting for.

Said the condor to the preying mantis, we're gonna lose this place just like we lost Atlantis.

Southern man better keep your head, don't forget what your good book says.

Old man take a look at my life, I'm a lot like you were.