I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.

You have to let your music be true and then people who want to adopt it as that, they take it on and they love it, and it changes their world.

So when bands work with me and it's 10 o'clock, usually you'd have to be getting out of the studio, we could go on until 2 in the morning cause it's my place!

I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination.

Don't listen to what anyone tells you about the kind of music you make. Just make it! Be yourself, make your own music, and be totally true to your art. Because it's kind of a selfish thing to be an artist.

I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic.

Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio.