Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.
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.
Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.
Not sure how I can be 'terminated' from a band that I founded, fronted and co-wrote many of their biggest hits. But that's something for the lawyers to figure out.
The great thing about kids is the immediate gratification. As soon as I get home from touring, my wife and kids become my life. There is nothing sweeter.
Eventually I want to subsidize my income with other creative outlets that are going to not keep me tied to the road so much.