"Actual songwriting means more to us than it did earlier,"

"I’m a sucker for candy, anything with a hook, though I also like to hear something different."

"If you can strip a song down to an acoustic guitar and a singer and it still sounds good, then it’s decent criteria for a song,"

"If you stick around a while, you get credibility with older people,"

"We’ve always done what we wanted to," he said. "It’s a real cliché, but its true."