I've always been making up my own restrictions for myself, from day one, and it's compelling, because it forces me to think. That's always been a driving force for me.

If you emphasize one part of the song, it trivializes the rest of the music.

It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.

A riff can take on the aspect of a chorus in a listener's psyche.

I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.

I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.

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