My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours a day.

I'm not stupid enough to want to be famous. But I would like to be able to earn a living playing music.

There's always been an incredible amount of junk music, and junk everything. Marshall McLuhan said that a medium surrounds a previous medium, and turns the previous medium into an art form. So, what was once a junk culture, like film, television surrounded it and turned it into an art form.

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

Honesty is the most subversive of all disguises.

Let the business take care of itself. If you get involved in the business, every hour that you're involved in business is an hour that you're not practicing. And every hour that you're not practicing is another hour further away from where you want to be.

Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.