We keep some distance between ourselves when we're not working. I think that's a really good thing.

Some people ask why we bother to make new music, but we still love doing it.

Bun E.'s a member of the band, but he's not touring, and he's not recording... We've had our differences, but we're all settled up now, and hopefully we can forget about that era. These decisions that Cheap Trick makes, Bun E. is part of.

I'd say it's harder to play with an acoustic guitar strapped over your shoulder for a few hundred people than it is to play in front of thousands with an entire bombastic band behind you.

We've always been kind of an underground band in a way that had the respect of our peers on the road. I like to say we're the world's most famous opening act because we've opened for every huge band on the planet.

Everybody has a country side to them, as I do.

I've completely embraced life in Florida after growing up in the Midwest. This is home for me.

I could do James Taylor, Neil Young, and sound just like them.

Country music is worldwide - it's not just Nashville and Texas.

We've been around, and we've stayed around, and we go out, and people still enjoy listening to us, and we still sell a lot of tickets, so what do I got to complain about? Nothing.