Musician

We really had boundless optimism about the place of music in the culture - and in the world.

One of the things I've heard musicians say that's true is, 'I would play for free. I would play music forever, but you have to pay me to travel.' I know we're always going to make music. The traveling part - that is the most wear and tear on any human.

We get notes sent to us backstage from college students that say, 'My parents used to play your albums all the time! I grew up with you, and I love the new stuff.'

I'm a Katy Perry fan, and I took my kids to go see her, and it was a great show, and she really can sing, and she really can play.

As a songwriter, simplicity - what not to do, what not to play - can be the hardest thing to achieve.

A lot of times, women are pigeonholed.

I feel like I've had a lot of painful situations that I intentionally delete from my memory.

In our band, we had such an interesting democracy, and it worked really well.

When we're home, we like to cook and be together and do mom things when we can.

We were wild-eyed hippies from the late '60s. We still had the exuberance of the mind-expanding '60s - that Tolkienesque, Zeppelin, androgynous, wood nymph, forest fairy kind of innocence. It sounds stupid now, but we felt we were changing the world with music.

Our mom was a super strident, capable, and strong individual. I think because she was a military wife in the Marine Corps, she had to push back the things that she believed, and she had to really scrape and fight to have her space.

They're hard to come by, good producers.

With 'Brigade,' we sort of decided to kind of revamp ourselves and put on the military garb and become more of a fighting unit, you know, like the title of the album, and sort of fight for it.

I always have dogs with me, even on the road. We call them port-o-pups.

You need to know how to play live. The ones who can do that are the ones you'll see around for a long time.

I play a lot of classical music around the house.

I've been through a lot of heartache in my day, and you turn to music to prop yourself up. It's a healing thing, and it's a powerful, powerful, beautiful thing.

I think if there's a support system in place, and you're acting adult-to-adult with a sense of unconditional love and forgiveness, only good things will come from any relationship between men and women.

Music changes kids, and kids change the world.