It was a democracy in the truest and most frustrating and most rewarding sense of the word. Anybody could come in and say, "You know, I'm just not cool with that." We'd be like, "Who's that?" "Oh, I was just cleaning the trailers." It was nuts.

When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script.

I don't think I'm in any position to give anybody advice about anything.

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

I saw School of Rock, and I was like, why haven't I worked with Richard Linklater already? Then by the time I got him I was like, I'm really pissed off I feel like you owe me some retroactive swag. He gave me the 10-year anniversary "Dazed and Confused" T-shirt, which I still wear with relish.

Sometimes you just gotta be drop-kicked out of the nest.

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.