When you're growing up you need your parents, but you don't want to be associated with them because you're trying to have your own life.

The worst thing your parents can do is try to emulate you.

I'm a guitar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player.

When I do interviews, I always go in with the attitude that something good can happen from it.

Everything works if you let it

I'm a good solid family man. I don't say I'm a good solid man.

I always thought I wrote good bridges. I was a bit more impressed with the bridges I wrote than maybe the songs I wrote.