Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it.

I've changed the way I look at things. When I put out a record or single I don't allow myself to set up expectations like, "This song must be a number one hit. Its got to sell X amount of records." I have fallen into that trap before.

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

I had a period in my life in the '90s where I was definitely young, dumb, and full of even more dumb.

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

To be a great band it's like you have that telepathy. You know when the bass player's in back of you without even looking. You know when your guitar player's coming up to you to lean up to you and sing into your microphone. You just know these things. You feel it. You feel the energy of it.

Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.