I can't sing half as well as Claudia Lennear. Hats off to her, but somehow, things happened for me.

I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.

I can't draw. But I can draw with sound. That's the most useful thing I learned in terms of what my craft is... The arrangements were mine. They were little lines and stuff that I had written myself... And I was locked into this idea that vocals didn't count, melodies didn't count, songwriting craftsmanship didn't count. The only thing that counted was high arching guitar solos...

We've got blue light, we've got all this light flooding our bedrooms and things blinking, and you can't get a decent night's sleep.

Up until about a hundred years ago, the world was dark at night. You got to have a real night so you could sleep.

Every single year since they invented sound recording it gets better and better. We've always improved it. With MP3, which just sounds awful, it's the first time in the history of recorded music that it sounds worse. It's really - and it's everywhere, it's ubiquitous.

Don't know much, but I know I love you.