Always have a collection of your favorite CDs with you.

Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.

When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.

My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally he'd let me visit where he worked. So I started going to his recording studio, and I really dug it.

The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.

Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.

If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something.

It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.

Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.

I'm not saying I wouldn't play a seven-string. It's just that I've never needed one. Most dudes who play seven-strings don't sound any different than someone playing a six-string that's tuned down.

To get my sound in the studio, I double guitar tracks, and when it gets to the lead parts, the rhythm drops out, just like it's live. I'm very conscious of that.

In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

A strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength.

I think the biggest misconception about experimental film in general is that it is always difficult and inaccessible.

Knowing how hard it is to collect a fact, you understand why most people want to have some fun analyzing it.

As you give out, so shall you receive.

I was kind of a jock in school. Beauty wasn't something I spent a lot of time on.

Philosophy begins when you don't know where to look for an answer.

I don't go for the so-called "intimate" stuff. Column items that report: "Minerva Ferncroft sleeps in pink dusting powder between puce-colored sheets in a heart-shaped bed." It leaves me cold.

I don't know that we're really going to need a label for the things we're thinking about doing next.