Mary Ocher gives me the chills, she frightens me with her feral soul. Her sound is of a true outsider artist, immaculately self possessed. Was this r….

For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space..

I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them..

It's insane how quickly everything's changed. I always feel like I'm running hard to catch up..

I was a complete outsider in high school..

Being on the road with rock, its pretty much 90 percent guys..

It's almost embarrassing how well-behaved I was, which is probably why I do things like spit water on myself onstage as an adult..

I feel like every five to seven years I really need to put myself in this position of discomfort and exploration, just to survive. Otherwise I feel l….

I'm making sure to cover all the bases. Like, I've always wanted a leather jacket like Michael Jackson's in "Thriller" since I was a kid. I'm trying ….

I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through..

I try to sing whatever the music makes me feel. And we play so much music from the other records at shows that I hope no one will miss the old style ….

Sophomore records are historically really difficult..

When you train a horse on a daily basis, you're a part of the horse's movement, you're a part of his motion. Everything that the horse experiences is….

You have to open up on stage..

My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear..

Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contr….

Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourse….

I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, ei….

I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore..

I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint to the more sort of synthetic lives that we've been l….

I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!.