I never wanted to start a band to sound like Nirvana.

You can't just imitate and keep coming up with ideas. You have to be tapping into something that's pure and unconscious in yourself or you'll have no career.

I never wanted to start a band to sound like Nirvana.

I got the chess bug when I was finishing high school, we were doing chess tournaments at my house. I never got to a very high level.

In an artistic and spiritual sense I'm really not that concerned about what happens after the album is done.

My influences are vast and varied. I was into classic rock at the same time that I was into hip-hop. It was just that hip-hop was the first music that I got really really into. Rock was right on its tail.

If you're playing a one-minute game, I could squeeze in five to six games before anybody walked by my cubicle. So I got really good at blitz, one-minute chess games. But that's kind of like the cheap chess version.