I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.

I don't like the idea of famous people.

If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.

My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind.

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.