Chris Robinson

There have been multitudes of times in my career where I could have taken an easier road or a more commercial path, and I've been just like, 'That's not gonna make me happy.'

With time and experience comes a different perception of what's going on around you.

The way we're going about things and what we want to do, we feel it has to be a really pure essence of music. That's where you get the most out of it.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.