Some of the songs I've made, I'm really disappointed in how I mixed them.

If Nirvana had remained a small, underground punk rock band, Kurt Cobain would still be alive. And he'd probably be living in Seattle, getting kind of fat and balding, be relatively happy and producing records for other people.

The moment a career is on a quantitative downswing, your loathsomeness is sort of attenuated.

I can spend years studying and being in therapy and having a very analytic spiritual meditation practice, but without the emotional component, without the softening that comes with love and vulnerability, everything else I do is really just surface.

There is a lot of music in the world that I love that does not always get the appropriate exposure.

When you say 'failure,' that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the first time I ever played a concert in Italy. I played a venue that held 900 people, and I think five people showed up. It wasn't a big, 'John Carter of Mars' type failure. It wasn't dramatic; it was just depressing.

A vegan who beats his wife is far further down the ethical ladder than a meat eater who's kind to his children.