You know, you've got to be careful with how you educate your kids in rock'n'roll fashion.

When people ask me if I have a hobby, a lot of times my answer is that I like to surf in warm water. I like to ski, if I have the opportunity. But really, I like to go to my studio and write music that I want to write, where there's no pressure to come up with a hit single.

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.

When I'm not completely loaded, it's a much more vulnerable place. I can feel the music, I can feel the energy and I really have to put it out there. When I was loaded, I was just oblivious.

It doesn't matter what kind of problems a family is having; it should always stay in the family.

I can't read sheet music, I have to just listen to it, and then just go for it.

When you're in love, you've found your soul mate, you think life is going one way, and suddenly it's completely apparent it's not. You have to rethink your whole purpose.