We were always able to sing and blend well together; that's our gift. But aside from that, we're really two different guys.

By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.

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.

Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away.

I really don't know what exactly all the songs mean. Sometimes other people have meanings and when I hear them I think, 'That's really a better meaning than I thought, and perfectly valid, given the words that exist.' So part of what makes a song really good is that people take in different meanings, and they apply them, and they might be more powerful than the ones I'm thinking.

All I've got to do today is smile.

You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.