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.

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 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.

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

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.

Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

Awareness is the fuel that powers change

But men have loved darkness rather than light.

Profit is a by-product of success, focus on success not on profit.

Everything in existence is a manifestation of the one living being we call God. Everything is God.

Cabel gives her a quizzical look. "I am totally not getting enough attention here.

I made more decisions in a half-day as governor than you can make in a whole week in the Senate... it's too slow for me.

People are going to have to make themselves predictable, or the machines will get angry and kill them.

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.

It is a very honest world, our work. I think you cannot fake anything.