I want to be in cahoots with bands who want to make the record of their dreams.

Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture.

The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free.

For less than the cost of a Big Mac, fries and a Coke, you can buy a loaf of fresh bread and some good cheese or roast beef, which you will enjoy much more.

In heaven, after antipasti, the first course will be pasta.

It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this

I don't feel like embarrassing Kurt by talking about what a psycho hosebeast his wife is, especially when he knows it already.

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment

Find people who think like you and stick with them. Make only music you are passionate about. Work only with people you like and trust. Don't sign anything.

Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food

I stopped drinking almost immediately after I had ready access to liquor, when I got to college. It almost immediately lost its appeal for me.

If there is a void in your life then you will never fill it with cash!

As my mom used to say, "If wishes were horses, we'd be up to our eyeballs in shit.

When we are loving, we openly and honestly express care, affection, responsibility, respect, commitment, and trust.

If the rich could hire other people to die for them the poor would make a wonderful living.

No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.

The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.

If we start talking about we and us, just think of how many things can actually take place and change in the world.

We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.

What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory.

I just want my children to be happy. I want my children to be healthy.