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 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.

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

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.

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

A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, "This is where I belong. This is what I came into this world to do.

something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope.

North Carolina has a monument to [Peter Francisco], and no one knows that. That's the kind of stuff that drives me.

Seattle is for people who love culture, but refuse to sacrifice their wild nature to attain it.

I see a world in the future in which we understand that all life is related to us and we treat that life with great humility and respect.

There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

I just liked girls because I couldn't help not to.

Every day I spend in Hollywood I start to realize how many films are made with no heart and no love. They just do it for the paycheck and I cannot imagine making a film that way.

So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.

Far, far below, red liquid bubbled. Blood? Lava? Evil ketchup? None of the posibilities were good.