Find people who think like you and stick with them. Make only music you are passionate about. Work only with people you like and trust. Don't sign anything.

The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens.

Of the people who cook on television, I have admired people like Jacques Pepin, Julia Child, Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver and a few others because they are free of drama, display good taste and masterful technique, and use clear exposition to bring you up to speed.

Suicide was such a formative band for me, so influential in the development of my taste. They're one of those bands that operated in absolute isolation for so long that they developed a completely unique world view.

I learned to cook from my mom. Most of what I ate growing up was Italian cooking.

In heaven, after antipasti, the first course will be pasta.

If I were a gambling man I would put all my money on there not being anything other than this universe.