A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

I'm always interested in mixing technology and music. You know, maybe I'll have a MIDI bass pickup at some point, I don't really think that's the direction I would want to go.

The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.

In order to have that incredible groove that makes you dream you have to think not of the groove, but of the dream.

It's really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend.

I built all the speaker cabinets myself.

Right after I graduated, my girlfriend, who I had been going out with for five years, dumped me, and my grandmother died.

I'm not really satisfied with anything I have written to date.

It does make sense to put on some songs that are relatively short, because radio usually only plays songs that are less than 4 or 5 minutes.

I've written some poetry, but...songs have to be more poetic, and I've really gotten to this non-poetic sort of writing.

I like referring to the saxophone and having a guitar lick instead. Same with the cymbals; having the cymbals and not playing cymbals.

There is one experience that brings joy or happiness to every living being. The experience of love.

God gives us our relatives – thank God we can choose our friends.

The white race will either inhabit planet earth in totality, or it will not survive at all. There will be no in between in our future.

Any disease could be healed in a matter of days - any disease - if distraction from it could occur and a different vibration dominate.

We have a country that we have to take care of.

One of the strongest feelings you can get in life--one of the most rewarding feelings--is the feeling of an "Aha, I finally understand."

I am egotistical, that I won't deny...I do think I'm good - in fact, I know I'm good...but I know that I don't appeal to everybody.

My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.

The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence of the nation, my boy!

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.