I would love to hang out with Elvis Costello, to see what he's up to because he seems so fascinating to me.

Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.

When you're No. 1 or No. 300, you still get to play and write the songs.

Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.

Theres no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty.

All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.

You have total freedom. It's like, if you do a solo record, there are no restrictions and you can do whatever you want, good or bad. You can have these passing fancies where you go in to the studio one day and you want to do something like what you did on the way in. That's dangerous. You have to have some sort of focus.