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" 'Street Legal' is like a cult classic. It's pretty cheesy at times, but you learn to embrace it. "

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" Nobody wants a complainer. "

" I'll know when a song's really awesome, for sure, and I get super stoked, and I'm so high when I'm hearing it back, but then you sit with the record forever. You're mixing it, and you can really just over-think everything. "

" If I sit in the same square room and work on something too long, I feel like you just go mad. "

" I definitely have relapses of stress. Most human beings are like that. But I think, ultimately, music is a therapeutic situation. Once you start playing, it all just gets resolved. "

" I'm not cynical, but the reality is that life is mortal. Terrible, sad things happen. Everybody loses friends and family. I'll be on tour and get really scared if my wife won't answer her phone within one minute. I'm sensitive. "

" I had a wacky job driving a forklift for an air freight company. That was the worst. "

" When I first got the record deal, I thought it felt like I won the lottery. But I always worked hard at it. "

" Australia is a wild place. "

" Every time I play with somebody, your perspective gets a little extended. It always rounds you out a little more in some way. "

" Critics always get the lyrics wrong in reviews, which is amusing - especially when they use them against you. "

" I'm the kind of performer who gets lost on stage. I can tap into this soulful haze. "

" I'm joking all the time with my friends, even when we're talking about serious things. "

" I like to laugh at dark things. "

" There comes a time when you've toured a ton, and a time to be inspired again. Listen to awesome jazz records that are mellow with no words, and just sit there and read a book, or space out on your couch. And eventually, all that inspiration comes. "

" A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time. "

" My favorite kind of song is the most beautiful song that you love so much and it's so good it makes you want to cry a little bit. Any jam can sound like that on a certain day. "

" My family was always playing music; I always enjoyed it. My cousin, who is a little older than me, he started playing music, so I wanted to, also. I asked my dad for a guitar, and he got me a banjo, so that was my introduction to playing. I played it like a guitar. I had a few lessons, learned out a few chords, and figured it out right away. "

" I had a really fun time working with the HARRYS guys and their whole crew. "

" I like New York. I like Philly. I like San Fran. I like when people are stoked. But Chicago's a real music town, and they're really good to us there. There's just something in the air there; people are just really stoked about music. Every time I go there, I have a great time, and the fandom is really heartwarming. "

" I'm just used to the L.A. music life. "

" My dad's really funny. The male sense of humor - like my grandfather's and such - is pretty bizarre. Basically my dad's side of the family is where the bizarreness comes from. It's a little goofy and a little out there. "

" I'd say the best thing the Violators and I have done is to dominate the U.S. with an arsenal of smash hits. "

" I've got an amazing family. My wife is really smart. She's guided me the whole way. With children, you see them grow up, so it's like you're forever young. They are totally innocent and so unjaded. Watching them grow up makes you go through it again yourself. "

" Influence is all osmosis. "

" I've developed this routine at home. I wait for the kids to go to bed; then my wife falls asleep. Then, it's dark and quiet enough for me to work on songs. "

" Even when I played in little league as a kid, I liked making friends, but I didn't want to be there, really. "

" I feel like my music is like - there are always new influences in there. "

" It's gotta feel natural. I'm always into that, and after awhile, if I am working on a song too long and trying to make something out of it that it's not... it's best just to stop and move on. "

" Some people are so sad that, at times, that's what gets on my nerves - if they just hammer the doom, with no comic relief whatsoever. "

" Love is intense, and sadness is intense. "