If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.

Basically, no one else gives me any opinions on lyrics. I don't ask for them. If they did, I would listen.

The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.

I was a kid, I loved music, that was our social thing. That's what we bonded on. That's what my Saturday nights were, looking to see what bands were playing. And some of those people were the coolest people ever. I want to participate in that. And I hope other people feel that and they're like, "Yeah man, this is part of it, this is why I love music."

Besides, going on tour and playing songs and arranging things, going to practice, it's all I know to be productive.

We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.

I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.