I built all the speaker cabinets myself.

I'm always interested in mixing technology and music. You know, maybe I'll have a MIDI bass pickup at some point, I don't really think that's the direction I would want to go.

The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.

In order to have that incredible groove that makes you dream you have to think not of the groove, but of the dream.

It's really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend.

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

Right after I graduated, my girlfriend, who I had been going out with for five years, dumped me, and my grandmother died.

I'm not really satisfied with anything I have written to date.

It does make sense to put on some songs that are relatively short, because radio usually only plays songs that are less than 4 or 5 minutes.

I've written some poetry, but...songs have to be more poetic, and I've really gotten to this non-poetic sort of writing.

I like referring to the saxophone and having a guitar lick instead. Same with the cymbals; having the cymbals and not playing cymbals.

He feared at certain moments that the only new knowledge he would take away from this country was learning how to swim and use the telephone.

That kiss was everything. She didn’t fight it and I gave her what I needed to give her — my heart.

To the irreligious person heaven would be hell.

What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read.

The notion of a world government to defend our rights would have sent the founding fathers running for their muskets.

The only way to lose weight is to check it as airline baggage.

We say that we care about the war, but we don't even really know what we're fighting for.

To be a good designer, you would need to have deep and far-reaching interests outside of the profession.

I’m losing my mind without you.

Thou knowest not the endless artifices of a court. Invented crimes are often there alleged; but real ones, and those especially, which may offend his pride, are oftentimes not to a king divulged.