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

The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that.

You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do.

I have a healthy cynicism, but not anger.

The beauty of having a producer is that you have someone who says, You're finished.

Being diagnosed with cancer really opened my eyes to the fact anyone can have it and that even though we think we have control over everything in our lives, we don't.

I like a good beer buzz early in the morning.