I thought The Doors were the greatest band for a while.

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

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

I just imagine that every song in and of itself is great, but when you add them all up, it's too much of me maybe.

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

The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully I write it down.

Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.