Your reputation is what influences people to think, feel and talk about you the way they do.

I know Im not going to book everything I go in on, and thats just the nature of the business. You have to keep hustling and not get down on it. You have to keep at it and find your way in. Everybodys story is different.

I wouldn't judge people on their instant responses.

To me, an untrained ear, a young person at the time, I would hear off the different feels, all these different sounds, and then years later realize that everyone had used the same equipment, just to their own ends.

When Depeche Mode put out a single you knew that a week later you could go and buy the 12" and it would have six versions and they were all better.

You can't go back and edit during the live set in the club. In the studio it's different.

You can sit in front of a computer and have a blank slate and be completely overwhelmed by the possibilities and not get anywhere.