Every album I've done pretty much has been not in a pleasant, quote-unquote, environment - it's freezing cold, or it was somebody's house with not-that-great equipment. It's always something that spurs on to get the job done.

You need a little resistance-something to fight against.

The big picture is a nice way to think of things if you have the freedom to.

Passion, for me, is like a shark - it never stops moving.

Saying you love something out loud with the wrong intonation in your face can damn you and destroy what you're working on.

In my bands, I don't really walk around telling people what to play, just out of respect really. I mean, if there's something I feel in my gut, I'll bring it up.

My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.