I've got nothing to say most of the time.
Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law.
Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?
I encourage people not to be passive consumers of music and of culture in general. And feeling like, yeah, you can enjoy the products of professionals, but that doesn't mean you don't have to completely give up the reins and give up every connection to music or whatever it happens to be.
To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.
Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for.
Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life.
Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.
One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail.
All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.
I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don't think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.
The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?
I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.
When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that's not something I could do.
