Making miracles is hard work, most people give up before they happen.

A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate...Everything that happens to you influences your writing...The writing process for me is pretty much always the same-it's a solitary experience...I have yet to write that one song that defines my career...Beck said he didn't believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent.

Bring you comics in bed, scrape the mold off the bread, and serve you French toast again. Okay, I still get stoned.

Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.

I would never put a video in front of my kid. While I don't use videos as a babysitter, they have come in handy on the airplane.

As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing.

I have a healthy cynicism, but not anger.