Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language.

When you're not putting a bunch of chemicals into everbody, people tend not to fly off the handle.

As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of music like a math equation.

My priorities now a a musician are so different now than they were as a kid. Everyone wants to be a rock star, and I wanted that too; I wanted to be on magazines and be running around the world and having all the fun.

If I'm going to make music and put my heart and soul into this and dedicate my whole life to it, I want to be making something that 15, 20, 30 years from now, somebody is listening to and that is a staple of the time it came out.

Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language.

We live with the things that we do to ourselves and others in doing what we've done to ourselves.