A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.

I don't even think my voice is really good.

It's sort of irritating now - people always ask me, "You're a dad, and how's fatherhood?" If Bob Dylan or Neil Young had a kid, it didn't seem like it made them a different person. It didn't make you old right away.

If there can be some paradigm shift thing that you can be part of, that's cool.

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

I hated it so much as a child. I just didn't like it when punk bands went metal, it really bothered me. It was happening left and right in the 1980s. It started I think with D.C. bands - G.I., Soul Side, they went metal. Right at that time, R.E.M. was coming out, these more kinda feminine bands, and I was more drawn to that than to go metal. And you remember MTV, with the bad metal. But even Metallica, it just wasn't my direction.

There's something in life that's cool, it's relatively cheap, and fun, and populist. Even when it's elitist.