I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.

I think there's a reason why wine figures into so many religions. There's something transcendent about it. It's sort of the way that music is more than the sum of its parts. You have all these elements that make up the terroir that wine can communicate.

Do unto others what has been done to you.

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

Choices always were a problem for you. What you need is someone strong to guide you. Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow, what you need is someone strong to use you - like me.

But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't have me.

The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.