So for my studio purposes, I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing things to my board and to my power amps and I know what I can deliver out of my studio.

We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada.

You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels.

I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination.

I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic.

I dont have any assistants, I do it all myself, I dont have any secretaries.

So when bands work with me and it's 10 o'clock, usually you'd have to be getting out of the studio, we could go on until 2 in the morning cause it's my place!

So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.

Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio.

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well.

You Are Worthy

The people with ideas have no power and the people with power have no ideas.

Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.

Hedge funds have made massive leveraged credit bets, knowing that their upside is billions in fees and their downside is millions in fees.

Good-humor makes all things tolerable.

Theres something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.

The Bible is the funniest book I have ever read. It's so funny! Right in the first six pages, it's funny!

He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.

Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.

Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He had pondered for twenty years the problem whether he loved liquor because it made him talk or whether he loved conversation because it made him thirsty.