When I sit down to interview people, I don't hold questions and I don't know the answers. They're more like conversations that become lessons.

When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

I've always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I'm a sucker for it, whether it's Linkin Park or Little Richard.

Joining a band without ever having really met the people before, you just want to be musically powerful.

Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief.

No one has any faith in the tape anymore - everyone just relies on computers and considers the hardrive to be the safest option, and I don't. I think an analog tape is something you can hold.

I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.