Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit.

There is that unpredictability of the seasons that I enjoy. I like the threat of a tornado. I like the threat of four feet of snow.

The ones that love us least, are the ones we'll die to please.

The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.

A rock'n'roll band needs to be able to get under people's skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat.

Although, my experience when I've been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I'm too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you're halfway away from it.

Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.