The only thing I had in my mind [when I was 17 ] was that I was going to be a professional musician. So it was just the right environment.

Music is a communication. It's a two-way street. You need people to play to in order to make that connection complete. That's the way we look at it.

Dark master of sin, now my soul is yours.

Obviously the best way to retain the most profit is to not give any of it away. That's something that you certainly learn through the years.

I remember feeling for the first time going somewhere where I was part of a community where I didn't feel like an outcast. I felt like I belonged. Everyone had a guitar strapped to their back.

You try to play the song better than you had before.

Stay focused when you're playing alive, so you're not distracted by something going on.

If someone is feeling out of sorts or detached it's a great time to bring them in and restate why we are here and what we are trying to do.

We're always in that head space about the audience and less about us at that moment.

I really rely a lot more on memory. I'm definitely not as good of a sight reader.

I don't have very eclectic tastes in music.

It's rude to stare, but the great thing about staring at a sedated person is that they don't know you're doing it.

I really want a pet, and I really love animals.

If by how you dress, you are saying to guys, "Hey, look at my body," why would a guy want to get to know you?

The difference between true and false repentance lies in this: the man who truly repents cries out against his heart; but the other, as Eve, against the serpent, or something else.

During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.

For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.

Cara [Delevingne] I wanted to be sure that she would be involved. 'Cause she didn't do a lot of films before I met her, so I didn't know if she was serious and so I push her a bit.

John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign.

I'm tryin' to be part of a functioning society so I can't listen to Curren$y man. His rhymes make me high haha.