I love a little more driving rock and roll vibe and that kind of music has always spoke to me. I guess it just rubs off when I'm writing music.

There is a reality that this day and age is the digital era. Anybody can find anything they want.

People just want honest music.

Just do what you love.

Make music that you truly enjoy and it shows.

Be honest in your music.

When there are rock festivals where there are sometimes 120,000 people and they're all sold out and they're epic, I think rock is alive and well, and hopefully it stays that way.

I just try and focus on having fun on the road and making the best music I can.

The problem is when you write the album, you record all the instruments, you edit the whole thing and then you have to mix it. You start to get out of touch with the songs and it becomes math.

I still love the radio. I think the radio is still an important thing in music.

I've never been too worried about all the music critics and stuff.

He who has no opinion of his own but depends upon the opinion and taste of others is a slave.

The one who was born a genius can't win against the one who tries, and the one who tries can't win against the one who enjoys.

Sometimes you get really bitter about how the prettiest images don't typically end up attached to the most interesting music. But I just take that as a challenge to try to do something cool.

In each atom, in each corpuscle, is life. Life is what you worship as God ... and earth is only an atom in the universe of worlds.

Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life.

O beautiful white land, olives and wild anemone and violet mingled among the shale, and purple wings of little winter-butterflies say, here Psyche, the soul, lies.

Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.

All pleasure should be a little bent, don't you think?

When you are telling your story, hold your own ink pen. Don't let anybody else tell your story.

Why, headstrong liberty is lashed with woe. There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky.