I feel the most natural thing is for music to come that way because it's sort of like poetry. Though I do think with poets that I like, like Charles Olson or Ezra Pound, they were rewriting constantly, until the poem becomes a diamond.But with music I don't really feel that way.

Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower.

You know, it's people's lives, so as you get a little older, your own life narrative, I guess, invades a little more. It's not like we're traveling in separate buses to each show. It's a labor of love, so we just do it because we like it. Maybe someone's gonna move, or not want to go on a tour for some reason - that could happen, I guess.

I don't know if you look back on your life and just see successes, but probably the first things that pop up are the regrets.

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

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 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.