As a songwriter it's kind of hard to listen to your own stuff with clarity.

I think people will always love a heavy Sabbath riff because it's fundamental to rock.

I've always related music to those moments when someone turns you loose on something and they haven't told you how to do it.

I think I have my own sort of distinctive swing, for sure. I think that's something that comes really natural to me, to push against the beat and kind of explore a triplet feel behind everything just to see what that feels like.

I like myself. I think I'm cool. But I think when you're in a band you take on a role within the band, and I think people over the course of years can identify those roles as almost being bigger than just the individual. I don't know. It's kind of hard to talk about.

I've seen neighborhoods that I would have never driven though because I'm riding my bike, because I'm looking for side roads, looking for maybe more hills or less hills depending if I'm exercising or not. You see a lot more, and you get the flow of a city a lot more.

Raising awareness, changing the marketplace, effecting spiritual change - whatever it is that you decide is your thing, go for it.