I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school.

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family.

It's funny, there aren't too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There's a few - the really brilliant ones.

You look up to your heroes and you shouldn't be intimidated by them; you should be inspired by them.

When I was a teenager, working towards dropping out of high school to starting to tour with bands, I'd drive around in my VW Bug every morning before school, very stoned listening over and over to Zeppelin. This song got to me because it just seemed mystical. There is something about those Celtic tunings that almost sounds Eastern. Somehow it would sweep me up into my own little trance-like state, like Sting with those shamans in the Amazon. But all I had was a bong and a Led Zeppelin cassette.

How do I stay humble? Because I'm the best at being humble.

I'm so not macho. It's crazy. My man cave is so not a man cave.