I like surfing; I bring a surfboard with me on tour.

What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.

When you're just shagging girls, you can talk about it, but once it gets real, then you don't.

I like people who have a pulse and aren't afraid to show it.

I see rock music as the best example of modernday storytelling that exists in our society. Songs are narratives that help the listeners cope with the reality of life that can't be easily spoken about in everyday conversation. It is a hugely powerful process of helping people find themselves through music.

I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them.

Sometimes something will come along, and it feels easy and sometimes you'll get 85 percent there on a song and the last 15 percent will elude you for three years.