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I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties, you kind of had to stick to one thing. Now, in this age of Coachella and European festivals and stuff, it's kind of anything goes, so that allowed us to try different things.

To be in one band that changed the world musically is pretty good, but to be in two bands that changed the world musically, that's amazing.

I'm not into bands for the sake of being into bands. I've grown past that. There was a time in my life when I was that guy.

My favorite band of all time is The Clash. The thing I love about The Clash is they started out as guys who could barely play three chords. They dabbled in reggae, punk, rap, jazz. They came to a sound that could only be defined as The Clash. It was impossible to say what it was. I admire them for that.

When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.

The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it.

Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.

I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters.

I always wanted to be in a band with a bunch of dudes who loved Green Day and all that.