Before you can make good music you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

I can play punk rock and I love playing punk rock but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.

I don't like to be labeled to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music but it's counter-productive.

Music is a part of my life all the time - on the plane before matches driving out to the court.

People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever and it's just the opposite really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show and smiley.

Before I settled on music I wanted to be an archaeologist an astronaut all sorts of really diverse things.

I think I'm a music fan before anything else.

There's more good music being made now than ever before.

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

For instance I'm always fascinated to see whether given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.