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Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was...

I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint to the more sort of synthetic lives that we've been living.

Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.

Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys.

I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.

Sophomore records are historically really difficult.

I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.

Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.

Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.

You have to open up on stage.