I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.

The best bands kept making records and had this evolution, where by the end, by their commercial phase or sellout phase, the records are from outer space.

I have a hard time repeating myself.

I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio.

Im still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but thats just the way I am.

If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle.

I try not to become friends with musicians, but life happens and dinner happens and going out happens - it becomes interwoven in L.A.

I like to find an artist who inspires me and get into their world and challenge them.

It's been said to me that I'm self-destructive because I'll walk away from things that are good.

I was a snot-nosed teenage skater at one point, who listened to only punk records and hung around people that had that idea of what is okay to do and what isn't okay to do.

The goal is to make something that sounds new and different.

Where there is the slightest insistence, there is no religion there!

The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.

Always remain suspicious that God is up to something good.

Be cheerful, if you are wise.

Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn.

It is what you don't expect... that most needs looking for.

My heart bleeds buttermilk. -Daine

Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.