If it weren't for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school. Give me something to assemble, I won't look at the directions, I'll try to figure it out by myself. It's why I love Ikea furniture.

I think that if you're passionate about something and you're driven and you're focused, then you can pretty much do anything that you want to do in life.

I don't think of Kurt as 'Kurt Cobain from Nirvana'. I think of him as 'Kurt'. It's something that comes back all the time. Almost every day.

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.

There's nothing better than having a bottle of beer in your hand in the waves.

If there's one thing I'm good at, it's gathering people together to do something fun.