To me, the hook of the riff is what makes a great guitar recording. It's the backbone of the whole song. When you have a strong riff, it's the rocket fuel for the track.

I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food.

It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.

In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.

In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.

Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.

But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.

I'm a thousand miles from nowhere, time don't matter to me. I'm a thousand miles from nowhere and there's not place that I want to be.

Control success before it controls you.

My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.

Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself.

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

It is my mood which decides the weather, it is my mood which brings the tiny changes to humankind.

Fluoride causes more human cancer, and causes it faster, than any other chemical.

The only thing worse than being bored is being boring.

The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.

Extreme liberalism is not a political philosophy. It is a mental disorder.

It's called Paris, not Hilton, just me, because I don't want people to think it's my family's. It's mine.

I hate to play a tournament in which I'm not contending. It's just not any fun for me.

Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.

We're all haunted in one way or another, are we not? If not by spirits, then by our own demons and regrets.