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

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.

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.

Life is so humbling, when we slow down and witness the gifts.

If you're gonna catch fire

If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

When you work hard, good things happen

No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

I go to work the minute I open my eyes.

We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

Whoever wants light, should give light, so he receives his payment.

I feel for today's leaders. I really do. They got to where they are by doing a series of jobs exceptionally well. And that doesn't help them at all with the challenges they now face.