I made so many recordings with junky mics and crappy mixing consoles, you have to use what your tools are and in some ways that's been inspirational.

I think because I worked really hard before I had any kind of success it kept me grounded. You just don't know how long that success is gonna be there.

I sort of feel I'm only as good as the last record I made. I was on as soon as I finish it I immediately put it aside and move on to the next project.

The first Garbage record sounds bizarre, it's not a pristine sounding album. We ran everything through stomp boxes and through samplers and that definitely gave it a vibe.

If I had had success when I was early twenties I'm sure I would have lost my mind, I would've just partied like crazy and probably blown everything I had.

I'm a gear head. I love gear. If I have the choice, of course I'd rather use a great microphone, a Neumann microphone and a vintage Neve board.

Dividing the goal into pieces must be brought down to the smallest measurable element, a day, to know exactly what to do every day

You know and we know, as practical men that the question of justice arises only between parties equal in strength and that the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.

Life is essentially an endless series of problems. The solution to one problem is merely the creation of another.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas-that's what my grandma taught me.

I have a passion for playing tennis and enjoy the workload and struggles of performing in this amazing global sport.

Wouldn't it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you'd never know which were which.

Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.

Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.

The movement of life has its rest in its own music.

As the bud a leaf, so at last the thought becomes a word.