I've been into gear for a long time, but I never saw myself as a producer because I didn't have the patience to finish things in a professional way.

All the songs were written on guitar and then put into the computer, where I played around with different sounds I was hearing and what was available in the software.

I often don't go to sleep and work through the night. I can't seem to do my vocal takes if there's light outside. There's a gentleness to the night that leads me in my stride.

I casually listen to mixes, but I don't know all the names of the tunes and the producers and stuff. It's hard to keep up with.

I walked when I should have runI ran when I should have walkedAnd don't I know it, don't I know it

Anger is the prelude to courage.

I don't want the technology of the 1950s, but I want the free market of the 1950s.

Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

There is only one duty; that is to be happy.

Every day of my life I make an effort. Like, everything's an effort - a good effort.

I've thought a lot about how if something horrible happened, and if it were like 'The Road' situation, I've decided I don't want to survive past the death of society as we know it.

The best gift, and investment, you can give your child is your time

I wish someone could get rid of individuality so easily; one never gets rid of one's individuality completely. One gets rid of one's egotism, which is a very different matter.

I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.