We all sort of came at it from weird angles. Most of the guys in the band played rock music, punk rock, before this. I have a degree in English that I don't use very much anymore. That kind of thing is maybe good for serving you coffee in the morning these days.

He's a lovable old codger. But he has such showmanship and presence. Here's this 73-year-old man, onstage with us when we're opening for Cheap Trick and Cake, and no one knew who he was. But he got up there and won everybody over.

Cannonball. I guess it's a train metaphor for U.S. history.