I think you can find yourself in life perhaps not really being the master of your own life and it is within your own will and tenacity whether you switch the roles or not.

Working with different people and do things that normally I would not do makes the music interesting for me to continue. It keeps me alive. When I'm doing something alone, that is mine, I know how it is. But when I'm working with someone else, I also see the view from the other, and usually learn something new, try something different. This is very important to my happiness.

The absence of a bass player always makes things go faster and hit harder in the high-end range.

I never knew Kurt to be suicidal. I just knew that he was going through a really tough time.

I think a myth is created from truth.

Anything lower than mid-six figures is not going to get me interested in that. And honestly, I just don't want to.

When you get a chance to play with people - informally is one thing, but when you hook up and make something that's going to last or mean something to someone, I take it very seriously.