Sing the song or keep it inside.

The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.

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.

To be appreciated by a whole 'nother generation of fans, all of a sudden discovering you, it's kind of what I did with the classic bands I love - the ones that influenced me.

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

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

I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted.