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" Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief. "

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" Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it's easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock. "

" At 13 years old, I realized I could start my own band. I could write my own song, I could record my own record. I could start my own label. I could release my own record. I could book my own shows. I could write and publish my own fanzine. I could silk-screen my own T-shirt. I could do this all myself. "

" Joining a band without ever having really met the people before, you just want to be musically powerful. "

" In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can't replace the magic of four people in a room playing. "

" Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music. "

" Who's to say what's a good voice and not a good voice? "

" I had never been in charge of anything. I'd always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I'd never been in charge of an organization. "

" When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side. "

" If it weren't for the Beatles, I would not be a musician. "

" Dude, maybe not everyone loves 'Glee.' Me included. I watched 10 minutes and it wasn't my thing. "

" I didn't start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born - I started getting wicked BO. You know there's a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO. "

" I was at a New Year's Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, 'I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,' and I actually meant it. "

" Whenever I say I made a record in the garage, people just assume that I have, like, a Lear jet parked in there or something. But really there's old luggage, a couple of bikes. It's big enough to put one minivan in. That's it. No dartboard. I'm so not macho. "

" I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs? "

" I've experienced great things, I've experienced great tragedies. I've done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there's more. "

" When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It's inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting. "

" 'Some Kind Of Monster' is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you're watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man! "

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" Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record. "

" When I listen to the radio, I just hear so much music that doesn't even sound like people. The vocals are all tuned, and the drums are all fake. "

" You know, Nirvana used to start rehearsals with the three of us just jamming. For, like, a half an hour, just noise and freeform crap - and usually it was crap. But sometimes things would come from it, and some songs on Nevermind came from that, and 'Heart Shaped Box' and stuff on 'In Utero' just happened that way. "

" The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void. "

" When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music. "

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" No, there's something about the sing-song cadence of children's music that has its place in rock. "

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" When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it. "

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" When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is. "