I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn't have any drums.

I've been trying to grow up some myself, in my heart, and it's happening quick and I feel good about it, and I want that to come out in the music.

I've put my life back together, but it's all a growing process and that's neat, too, because if you stop growing, what good is it musically? So that is what I am looking forward to - growing. In some ways, I felt stagnant in my life and it showed.

Some people don't understand that but it's nice when it really just gets to the point then that it [music] doesn't get played so much that you're overdoing a lot of things; that it's fresh ideas. And they come out fresh and if you're already in the mode, I guess, to simplify some things so that it comes across better on record, it's the right time to be tasteful with somethin'.

The problem with taking amps to a shop is that they come back sounding like another amp.

The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you're up there bigger than life. People idolize you.

The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks.