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Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk about other people's music.

I mean, I don't even think of myself as a musician, really.

So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.

You look at Michael McDonald and people like that; I think they just tried to write music that was true to themselves. That's our bottom line. Whatever people view us as, I think as long as we try to create good music that will win out in the end.

I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.

Music expresses what cannot be put into words I like to think, and I think the band makes a good go at it.

The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.

Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride.