To do it nationally or internationally, you have to follow a few more rules.

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.

I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.

No drug is a cure, though. Drugs are just big pieces of tape they stick over warning lights.

Popular music sucks so bad right now.

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.

My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.

We need a day of the dead. That's a perfect celebration.

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

What the pundits call wishy-washiness, the Bible calls repentance.

Until you begin to write, then you see wonders.

I took a month long vacation in the stratosphere, and you know it's very hard to hold your breath.

So, economics should emulate physics' basic ethos, but its search for precision in physics-like formulas is almost always wrong in economics.

I don't want a lot of strangers looking down at my wrinkles and my big fat belly when I'm dead.

Rich people bring a lawyer. Latinos and blacks bring their mom.

It don't take a lot to make me happy. I'm not spoiled like that.

Count it one of the highest virtues upon earth to educate faithfully the children of others, which so few, and scarcely any, do by their own.

The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, for kindness grows in this way.

If you feel glamorous, you definitely look glamorous.