So whenever I had some in-between producing time down in my studio I popped a tape in and started working on it. Working a little bit at a time, it actually took almost four years.

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.

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.

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.

Finding the courage to break away from other people’s opinions, and your self-limiting thoughts, could be the most significant breakthrough transformation you make on your journey to success.

The father of Egyptology was Father Athanasius Kircher.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.

There's such a good vibe in Minneapolis. You've got an upscale downtown, and yet people aren't afraid to sit around the fire pit in the middle of winter and drink a beer. It's amazing.

There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin.

I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss.

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In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.

I said a lot of things in the heat of the moment that I shouldn't have said. Called him names I shouldn't have called him. I apologise for that. I'm sorry. It was all meant to promote the fight.