We've survived by believing our life is going to get better.

There are lots of really good guitarists, but they play with the same pedals that everybody else does. Everybody buys the same pedals, so the sounds tend to be the same. I am looking for different ways of doing that without having to spend days and weeks and months fooling around with pedals, which I don't enjoy.

She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been

Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.

Maybe I think too much for my own good.

I just said, you know, this is a great track but this lyric, I don't believe it. It sounds like I'm trying to say something, instead of it naturally coming out of me, like I was saying something that I already knew. Anyway, I can't remember what it was. And either I threw it all out or I threw 90 percent of it out, and kept a line or two. That's happened a couple of times to me. Not too often, but a couple of times. Very aggravating when it does happen.

I regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we'll make peace with each other . . . No rush.