I'm a dreamer. I watch people. You don't try to become them because you could never become any of those guys. But you hope that some of it, you know, comes off on you at some point in your show, some point in your writing, that it happens to you and this light just shines on you.

When you love what you do, it pays off, and that's the best reward you could have.

I feel like I have re-created myself on every album. I try to do that. It's like playing a game with yourself, trying to compete with yourself.

I don't really produce so-called commercial pop music so I haven't changed so much. I've been on the one path always.

You know all these stadiums that U2 are playing? I've played in them. And I'm building up to it again.

Frustrations are going to be there in every profession you're in.

Growing up in the Bay Area, I played early on with these quartet groups who set guidelines for me. I remember the guys would all have the same clothes and shoes, like these uniforms. I was in awe.