I feel a great responsibility to deliver for our audience ... I am like their servant, but there's only one honest way to lift people up, which is to feel genuinely elevated yourself. And the way to do that is follow your heart. That's all we try to do.

I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of a given character or the overall plot.

The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward.

I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.

I think the Internet is going to open up a lot of possibilities with music, and the shake-up of power is exciting to me.

Creativity is the antidote to destruction.

When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.