There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.

Rock & roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world.

The owner of Spotify is worth something like 3 billion dollars ... he's richer than Paul McCartney and he's 30 and he's never written a song.

I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.

One day you look out and the audience consists of 65,000 people. It's like looking in the mirror and one day you realise you've gone grey.

I imagine if Spotify becomes something that people are willing to pay for, then I'm sure iTunes will just create their own service, and they're actually fair to artists.

I see a lot of comments on Twitter and stuff about how ugly I am, how bad I am at the drums, how awkward I look, and I'm like, yeah, I agree with most of those things.

Tune into my new lifetime movie. 'Dislocated shoulder' airing right now.

I'd literally rather hang out at the T.G.I. Friday's in New Jersey than tool around at a place that sells $40 cheeseburgers.

I had this fascination with four-track recorders when I was in high school.

Belief is just the place of understanding you are at the moment. Without an open mind, you will be standing in that one spot forever.

One should not pray if that prayer is vanity.

In its essence, a meal is a creative act that has its genesis in the mind of someone who cares enough to plan it, gather ingredients and labor over its creation.

even after every emotional accident, the show must go on.

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves and unless one travels to completely new territories one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself.

Some people will tell you that slow is good - but I'm here to tell you that fast is better.

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.

life without love, is no life at all

One of my rules is, if Jesus or Taylor [Swift] calls, I take the call.

The only way anyone knows which girl I'm with is if a one-night stand goes on 'Howard Stern.'