Usually [the lyrics] go from one word to the next word - there's no finish line. The music was that way, too.

So much of rock lyrics is just a mirror of real feeling. It doesn't feel dangerous to me. They just feel like "rock lyrics."

I really do think everybody can sing.

I've been getting plenty off my chest. Sometimes I get too much off my chest and I regret it.

My wife is a big fan of George Oppen and I got into him. I could have a career like his. It's not an alpha male situation, George Oppen. It's quiet. It's poetry.He just lived a life of an intellectual poet.

I don't really know where the songs are coming from often. Many of the best things I made up were just off the top of my head.

I do play soccer, but it's exhausting in a way.