Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.

I just like so many different kinds of music that I like experimenting. I don't want to keep making the same record over and over and over. I'm an 'evolve or die' kind of a musician. I think it's cool to try new things.

I just try and learn to be a good husband and be a good father before I am a good rock star. That means saying no to certain things that go with the business.

We seem to be keeping old fans and are bringing on new fans that are teenagers. I think that is amazing. When I was a teenager, that was when I fell in love with music. It affected me in a deep way. That's why I love having teenagers at our shows.

No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.

Because computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true. Computer memories work in a manner alien to human memories. My memory lets me recognize the faces of my friends, whereas my own computer never even recognizes me. My computer's memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.

It's harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.