I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.

I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.

I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.

I'm not a good guitar player.

That’s a bit sweeping. Sometimes it takes a while to find out how good or bad something has been.

Witches seek the sacred knowledge the rest of the world has already forgotten.

But I know that if I don't at least try, I'll stay the way I am till it kills me. Till I kill me, I mean. I never really accept that that's what I'm doing - I say it, but I don't believe it.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

I describe the design process as like the tip of the iceberg. What you don't see is the long haul: all the endless auditing and things like that.

I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.

The further one goes, the less (he realizes he) one knows.

My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.

One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.

A guy who treats his mom well, treats his wife well.