Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated..

When you're really looking forward to something, you don't feel the sense of pressure..

Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs….

I see love, like art, as an obsession. Maybe that's an overly romantic view of human existence, but I'm an overly romantic human being. If love, like….

It doesn't matter what kind of problems a family is having; it should always stay in the family..

I'm going to take care of myself because that's what I need to take care of..

Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides..

The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable..

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush..

Rock and roll doesn't allow you to grow up - especially if you're not trying very hard to..

Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you ….

I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted..

Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expre….

I'd sell one of my songs for any car commercial in the world that paid enough money. But to stay in the Top Ten for weeks on end when I'm in my for….

I suffer from manic-depressive disorder, and I've chosen not to take medication for it. Because of that, every once in a while I go through manic epi….

It's a beautiful thing to be that committed to something that you get so much joy from, but it is like a sick addiction, because sometimes it's incre….

To be a great band it's like you have that telepathy. You know when the bass player's in back of you without even looking. You know when your guitar ….

When I'm not completely loaded, it's a much more vulnerable place. I can feel the music, I can feel the energy and I really have to put it out there.….

I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them..

I had a period in my life in the '90s where I was definitely young, dumb, and full of even more dumb..

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting..