"Rock Candy" was my first record. I had never been in a studio, so I was in shock and I had no idea if it was great or if it stunk. I was just putting in my heart and soul, and closing my eyes and keeping my fingers crossed. I gave it everything.

Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway.

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

The downloads, the licensing, commercials, radio - it's made me more money than any song I've ever written, and it only went to No. 26. It wasn't a big hit at all. But it's a career song ["I Can't Drive 55"].

We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.

I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.

I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa.