Love is my family. I would die for them.

My wife and children are the greatest force that keeps me sober and strong.

I'm just a proud papa and it's nice to get that validation from my colleagues in the industry. You get up, you pull your pants down and you're like, "Here it is!"

Seeing my children makes me come most alive. I come home and I see my kids' faces light up when they see me at the door with my guitar case. They run to me, we hug. I never go beyond a few weeks without being in their presence, so they have adjusted quite well.

I'm not a perfect song writer, but I am song writing problems with dynamics, instrument change and arrangements.

The problem is that corporations have way too much power in Congress and the government and they're rigging the system so that they don't pay taxes, but we do. We pay for all these crazy wars they come up with.

You kind of have to have a cynical thing sometimes.