I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.

I'm not a true vegan.

I'm probably not long-term-relationship material for now.

I've acclimated to the music-while-exercising thing.

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.

Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator.

Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.

The road is not a problem.

We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill.

We'll have these people hang out with us while we're doing our touring, and talk to them and let them speak their piece to the world.

Well, I get excited about music.

You know, I like to climb trees and ride bikes and play.

I think there is always going to be inspired music and there are always going to be inspired listeners and there is always going to be an inspired method of getting it from A to B.

As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.

But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected to art and music as a band. When he came back I felt it again, instantaneously.

I never really thought in terms of the concept of being a rock star - being around people like that just seemed like normal day-in-the-life stuff to me. Those were just the surroundings I grew up in.

What I've realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me.