A lot of potential scenarios create challenges. It's all about how you grew up, values instilled in you.
There's something extraordinary about selling millions and millions of albums.
Taylor being married and so on, that does evolve the dynamic on the road.
We've done enough - and made enough mistakes - to pretty well know how to guide our careers ourselves.
Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.
Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.
Getting to make the music, and having a good time doing it, is the most important thing to us.
There needs to be leadership in the heartland of America.
I want my kids to know that what I do is work. It's fun, it's a great job, but it's work.
There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me Billy Joel and Jackson 5.
There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
I've got angels watching out for me.
As much as we were very proud of being a pop band, I know we never felt like we fit into that category.
We have always adapted ourselves to the songs instead of vice versa.
We felt like, first and foremost, we were songwriters.
We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
We can do things that are very, very simple to us that can have a huge impact on others.
Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case.
There's no problem with fans and bands. There's a problem with the economics of the outside disruption of the industry.
There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.
There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
The crowds in Milwaukee are awesome.
Texas is a pretty free state.
Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
