There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.

And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.

One day you look out and the audience consists of 65,000 people. It's like looking in the mirror and one day you realise you've gone grey.

If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.

I'd literally rather hang out at the T.G.I. Friday's in New Jersey than tool around at a place that sells $40 cheeseburgers.

I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.