While you're learning guitar, figure out the drums, too. Not only does it help you have great timing, but it helps you understand how a band works.

Everybody used to be busy writing songs - great songs - that became hits. Now everybody's writing hits. Everybody's desperately writing a hit because they know they can't survive if they don't have a hit. Where in the past, we were writing a song like 'More Than Words' on a porch, not really believing it was gonna be a hit.

When you are in this business and this career, it's hard for any one thing to engulf you.

You don't really write a hit song - you write a great song, and then, if the public decides it's a hit, they take over from there. The song becomes its own monster.

Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great.

I always set small goals and work towards them to achieve them.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Anytime you play a team sport, the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice.