Right after I graduated, my girlfriend, who I had been going out with for five years, dumped me, and my grandmother died.

I'm always interested in mixing technology and music. You know, maybe I'll have a MIDI bass pickup at some point, I don't really think that's the direction I would want to go.

The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.

In order to have that incredible groove that makes you dream you have to think not of the groove, but of the dream.

It's really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend.

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

I built all the speaker cabinets myself.

I'm not really satisfied with anything I have written to date.

It does make sense to put on some songs that are relatively short, because radio usually only plays songs that are less than 4 or 5 minutes.

I've written some poetry, but...songs have to be more poetic, and I've really gotten to this non-poetic sort of writing.

I like referring to the saxophone and having a guitar lick instead. Same with the cymbals; having the cymbals and not playing cymbals.

Fundamentally, leadership is more about the future, but starts at today.

Cleanliness begins with love for godliness

The one charm about the past is that it is the past.

Americans never quit.

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

In 2000, I fell in love. I had never felt anything like that before in my life. It kind of took me over.

Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God?

I didn't like the sound of people gasping at the mere mention of my name. It horrified me...

Rise above principal and do what's right.

My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family.