I've always felt that if you're not on your side, why should anyone else be. So I always encourage people to be confident, and sometime even a little falsely so, just so you can give yourself an opportunity.

I think paranoia goes from generation to generation. It's convenient to imagine that there's a few people controlling everything, that way it's manageable and small. But that's not life, life is messy.

Job one is get out of that cave. A lot of people do get out but don't change.

If you're anything like me there are days when you're convinced you know more than everyone around you. Which is often confirmed by your interactions with people.

You have to give people something to actually write music so that you're not just running your mouth all the time.

I felt like a fighter who was training for a title bout that had not been booked yet.

I've always been a fella who put most of my eggs in one basket and then take a dump in the basket but I really don't know.