The ability for a woman to orally satisfy somebody in a rock band, that’s important to a rock ‘n’ roll musician.
You know it’s never too late to shoot for the stars regardless of who you are.
I’ll never be the best guitar player.
Happy wife, happy life. I think every man learns that quick. Really quick.
Any artist that is even surviving right now is a dark horse because things change pretty fast. You’re a superstar one day and wake up the next day and you’re anonymous. To be successful in any way is beating the odds right now, I think.
I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say, ‘I don’t understand why this is happening to me.’ There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn’t some magical thing that just started happening.
It’s more difficult to write a song about having your heart ripped out of your chest while you’re in love. Because it lacks honesty. And the honesty comes through in the music, it really does.
There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn’t some magical thing that just started happening.
You never know what your parents are going to say when you tell them you’re getting married – especially when it’s with someone they haven’t met yet.
When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that’s bad luck.
I definitely consider myself a songwriter first because that’s my best attribute.
After this many years of being a lead singer in a touring rock band, I’ve had my fair share of fun. But those days are long behind me.
Sometimes I write about things that never happened to me that wind up happening to me. When you put things out in the universe, sometimes they wind up coming true.
It’s okay to have faith in something that you can’t see or touch.
I’m always at the opposite end of the spectrum, the opposite of hipster culture, and I enjoy that.
I honestly think that with every song you release you have to keep winning your own fans over again.
I would call myself more spiritual than religious.
It’s a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business.