Music is in every country and every culture around the world. It's universal.

The collectability of music is something lost in the age of MP3s and album downloads. Holding an album in your hands and having the full-sized artwork reconnects the artist and the listener.

I firmly believe artists should be paid for what they create.

From a very early age, my wife and I told our son that there are times and places for everything. I told him, look, when you're in class, you have to be quiet and listen to your teacher, but when you go out to the playground, you can scream and be silly.

Make yourself do something stupid so when you really do something stupid you won't feel so bad

There's also this weirdness to California, this darkness, it's a place where people come to follow their dreams and sometimes don't make it.

Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war.