I had some really great experiences doing overdubs.

I sometimes feel like I need to pinch myself. I feel extremely fortunate.

Sometimes it's hard to hear criticism, or "maybe let's try a different way." People's feelings get hurt.

I don't have any intention to stop. Rock 'n' roll is my main concern.

My problem was never with the major label, it was with the guy who we put our trust in and then wouldn't take my phone calls once we'd signed to a major label, who then quit.

I'm usually way more pleased with the stuff that just kinda happens by accident and is no way a pop song. But sometimes the easiest thing for me to write is pop songs.

I'm never trying to be commercial or accessible, or saying "let's do this weird stuff, but at the same time we gotta do this safe stuff".

It's hard being the guy that brings in a song, because you're very, you know, it can be something that you get too sensitive about.

I love not being in charge of writing all the songs, and being the front person - the whole thing is cool.

You definitely get more of a band feel to a song if you've been playing a song live a bunch.

There's no way to replicate a really great vocal sometimes.

He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.

Mothering Oxymoron: Reminding the kids to not talk with food in their mouths, yet I have food in my mouth while trying to correct them in the moment.

I wouldn't want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I'm terrified that they might end up with someone like me.

Hollywood has gone from the capital of conspicuous consumption to the cutting edge of conspicuous conservation.

I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don't need.

Painting is so much more than the materials.

I am free to choose my own actions. Indeed, like everyone else, I must be so. A good act that is compelled is not goodness at all, but merely force.

As I mentioned we have arrested or detained over 1,000 people here in America to determine to find out what they know.

We are willing to follow leaders only to the extent we believe they call on our best, not our worst.

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.