I like to find an artist who inspires me and get into their world and challenge them.

The best bands kept making records and had this evolution, where by the end, by their commercial phase or sellout phase, the records are from outer space.

I have a hard time repeating myself.

I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio.

I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.

Im still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but thats just the way I am.

If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle.

I try not to become friends with musicians, but life happens and dinner happens and going out happens - it becomes interwoven in L.A.

It's been said to me that I'm self-destructive because I'll walk away from things that are good.

I was a snot-nosed teenage skater at one point, who listened to only punk records and hung around people that had that idea of what is okay to do and what isn't okay to do.

The goal is to make something that sounds new and different.

Only the Creator defines path of a river course.

He leaned in close, his mouth near her ear. “Dance with me.

Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her.

Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.

It almost seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.

At moments we are all artists.

I can either cross the street, or I can keep waiting for another few years of green lights to go by.

I'm a warrior at heart; I'm an ex-Navy Seal. I'm too old to wage war anymore, and so now I wage it mentally. And so I find politics very stimulating; it's war without guns.

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.