Sing the song or keep it inside.

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.

It's better to not set your expectations high. And that's what happens when you have a long career - not every album is going to be record setting.

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.

Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated.

I'm not sober. I haven't done drugs in 3 1/2 years, so I call myself clean.

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