I did some writing. I was just taking the kids to school. I did a couple things and we did some tours. It was a lot of downtime.

You can change the world, but if no one's listening, it doesn't matter.

Yeah, on the records, the guitars are made melodic, and I try to make it memorable. There's not much just wanking, to be honest - it's mostly melodic parts. I try not to play too many notes. It's just more instrumental music. It's a totally valid criticism if you don't like that kind of thing. It also is maybe a little anachronistic or unnecessary in a certain way.

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.

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

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."

It's easy to be negatively funny about personalities in the media. It's just kind of a cheap laugh.