I like African and avant-garde music, anything that's vaguely interesting. Hard rock I get a bit bored with because it's what I do. So anything outside of hard rock's fine by me.

I'm old enough to know what music was like before rock & roll.

No one enjoys being away from friends and family.

If you listen to what's on the pop charts, everything is machine oriented.

You can't play bass in a vacuum.

I enjoy anything to do with music.

I don't listen to hard rock or heavy metal. I suppose I've always been influenced by folk music, I'm a big Bob Dylan fan.

You're playing the songs for the audience and they still think they're good songs. So I tend to get excited by that, audience reaction.

I don't want to produce anyone that doesn't want to be produced by me.

Obviously you take any creative people and put them in a room and you're going to get clashes, you're going to get friction.

Not one song on the charts is being played naturally. But when you go see someone live it's special. Even though you can fool people, I know there are people out there who still play along to tapes.

There is no failure in life. It is only an experience.

If whatever belief you are holding on to isn't driving you forward in life, then it's time to let it go and let the opposite take charge.

It is the crimson tongue that paints the world others think they see.

Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.

I am blessed to have Mom and Dad.

I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice.

A lot of executives act like their time is worth more than anyone else's. But I always respect an employee who guards his or her time, even from me.

Some people still believe you should just fall in line with whats going on - and thats scary. It makes a mockery of freedom of speech.

I hate that feeling of being so full that you feel like you're gonna burst, so I try not to do that.

Shiva is chidambaram, like the inner sky. Shiva is the inner sky of consciousness