I've wanted to not play as much. I would like to just sing now. Even though I don't think I'm a great singer, I wouldn't mind just - not being a frontman, per se, but singing and not playing.

When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.

I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.

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.

I like that band Get Hustle. They're cool live. I haven't heard their records, though.

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

Don't go to the same studio twice, or work with the same engineer twice.