Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.
Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.
A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture.
Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated.
Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it.
There's a beauty in being part of a band, when there's equality and trust.