It was daunting at first. I did have insomnia for two weeks,

'Just wanted to let you know your wife is four weeks pregnant' -- those were the first words out of the doctor's mouth.

It's great for the first two weeks.

These guys beat each other up. There's bloody noses, we've had kids knocked out. The first couple of weeks of practice, it's brutal. They are actually pounding on each other. It makes us tougher.

There is not that much of a generation gap these days.

We can use electronic instruments like synthesizers and sequencers and things like that. I'm not sure this is what's going to happen, but the last time we were in the studio, like months ago now, we were fooling around with an MPC groove box and some keyboards. We were only in there a few days but we came up with a few things that were very promising. They were the type of thing that two people could perform, maybe three. I love working with a big band, and if there's any way we could do it, that's what I would do, [but] the music business is so crazy right now.