I was kind of always attracted to red. I used to wear red socks a lot for some crazy reason.

I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get drunk. I don't do that. I never drink tequila during the day, and I don't drive at night.

To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.

I've always been into writing love songs.

And for him [Kurt Cobain] to do that [suicide] - I didn't like that. I thought that was just wrong. It just sent a bad message to a troubled generation.

This is pop music. You've got a candidate for president of the United States using it, that's hitting the biggest audience you're ever going to hit in your entire friggin' life. And you don't want that? Bullshit. That's what you want. It's not even for success or fortune, it's because that's the power of the song.

We always sold 4 or 5 million records no matter what we did.