I like driving. I'm a real sucker for driving across North America - I never get sick of it, ever.

The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight. The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You.

I have a real dog-like mentality, in that it's like, 'Where is my next meal coming from? Am I ever gonna eat again? Will I ever write another song again? Will anyone show up for tour?' I think it comes from being really poor as a kid.

I want to get away from the social vampires in Tucson. The people who have no lives of their own and meet me and know who I am and feel entitled to say negative things. I have good friends here, especially in the bands. But a lot of it is just like high school.

It's like sometimes, you can just lay back and it takes the pressure off of you.

Being the boss of your own career, you get used to having veto power and getting what you want, or as close to what you want as you have mapped out.

Everybody in my band is married, pretty much, and have lives at home, and I don't want them to be away from their families so long that they just start to feel psychotic. You have to go home and stand around in your bathrobe doing your dishes to feel like a normal person sometimes.