I'm waiting for my kids to grow up and get into the Offspring and look at me like I'm a total candy-ass..

Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in..

I do like a song that can look good on a page without even being sung. I edit and edit and edit..

I don't want to sing songs and write songs that need to have images behind them that are of a specific time. The times we live in today - I mean, the….

My father said it himself in an interview many years ago: 'Husband and wife failed, but mother and father didn't.' I've got a life that really matter….

Artists are not going to put somebody new in the president's chair. It's all worth the effort; it all needs to be done. But I don't look at songwriti….

You have to have a work ethic and you have to be educated in what you're doing. You have to take it seriously. It doesn't mean that everything you do….

My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity..

I'm realistic. Getting to everybody is not the goal here. The people you can affect in any way - that's who you want to get to..

I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively-and there were a lot of choices-writing songs wa….

Tolerance can lead to learning something..

Music is something I really have a need to do - I don't seem to be able to stop.