If for instance, in a board meeting, if you have an idea, it better be a good idea, or you're not going to get everybody's attention.

We wanted to establish a new fan base over here. And second, we wanted to challenge ourselves. We wanted to bring what is ostensibly new music to fresh ears and see what lights them up.

Slowly you become your own man.

I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.

Our lives are interesting.

Sometimes it's a huge amble, where you're just on top, on the lid, and it's not going anywhere, and sometimes you walk on the stage and from the first note, the afterburner kicks in and you can't stop it.

I don't get the stuff that I carry around in my head from TV, and especially I don't get the stuff that I carry around in my heart from TV.