Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that?

I think you have to want to be really famous. It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage.

Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that?

What I miss [about church] is being forced to be in community with people that aren't the same as me.

I think when you've been in a band for a really long time, sometimes you don't appreciate what's good about yourself. It's easy to play something and get too focused on some small detail. It's helpful to have somebody around who can say, "No, that was good." Just so you don't get too lost or forget what you do. You need somebody you really trust who has great taste.

Years ago, in order to stay sane, I had to really make an effort not to think about how people view us. There's just so much noise, positive and negative, and not much good comes out of thinking about it.

Once I got to know what's been happening historically, it's pretty impossible to un-know it. Like right now, there's the outbreak of cholera in Haiti, and people see that as a news headline, but I know there's half a billion dollars of aid that one senator is putting a hold on, that the Red Cross has raised half a billion dollars but has only spent $200 million.