I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.

I'd definitely be into doing some zombie slaying music. That'd be cool.

Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.

It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion.

I don't have any tattoos but I've thought about getting Ernie, from Bert and Ernie, on my earlobe. He made a big impression on me as a kid. And I have pretty big earlobes.

I prefer cynical people. Nice guys grow on trees.

You might as well play at the show everyone else is playing at.

When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.

I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.

I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That's why I generally don't like alternate tunings and stuff like that. I like the boundaries of regular tunings.

People have to do what they want to do.

I used to be embarrassed by my mom, but now I know what she is—she’s a hero.

What matters right now is this: we're each of us standing here, together, alive, together.

Jeff Bezos was one of those best and brightest who came to N.Y. to work in finance. He didn't need to know anything about retail bookselling to start Amazon.

In order to be found, you have to be findable.

I'll be selling tickets for my next tour exclusively through Jonah Lehrer. Make sure to pay cash.

When I watched Braveheart I was in tears and I was rooting for the Scottish people

I suspect that, if you should go to the end of the world, you would find somebody there going farther, as if just starting for home at sundown, and having a last word before he drove off.

One sailor will do us more good than two soldiers.

In Europe, radio stations are owned by a variety of different entities, so there is less uniformity on radio programming and more opportunity for artists to get radio play and break overseas.

My time inside there was very short compared to the amount of time it took to take on and take off this suit and to test me for how much radioactivity I have.