Dream big and surround yourself with brilliance, even if you end up dressed up like a flower or a sexually transmitted disease.

I love 5.1. Sometimes you can't squeeze everything in comfortably into a stereo picture. There is a lot more space in a 5.1 environment.

Everybody nose dive, hold your breath, count to five. Back slap, booby trap, cover it up in bubble wrap. Room shake, earth quake, find a way to stay awake. It's going to blow, it's going to break, this is more than I can take.

I try when I'm writing to fill my head and my ears with all sorts of stuff and then let it settle and filter through. At a certain point it seems like fruitless activity because you're taking a lot of time and not seeming to get anything. And then, slowly, you realize you've actually digested elements and that your thinking is being freed up and the way you build up compositions is changed as a result of what you've been listening to.

Surround yourself with brilliance.

Self-conscious, uncertain, I'm showered by the dust. But the spirit enters into me and I submit to trust.

I get lost, sometimes. Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart.