Sometimes I feel embarrassed because I'll tell the kids if someone is driving really slow or cutting in, I'll say "Bloody Asian drivers. " But I feel justified in saying it because I'm Asian.
I'm very fortunate because I love what I'm doing.
You can't expect to be the same person you were three years ago. Some people expect you to be and can't come to terms with the fact that if a year has elapsed between LPs, that means one year's worth of changes. The material consequently is affected by that, the lyrics are affected by that. . . the music too.
This week, I'm a gypsy. Maybe next week it'll be glitter rock.
I'm at my best when I'm exhausted and under pressure.
There's a very old recording maxim that goes, 'Distance makes depth. ' I've used that a hell of a lot-whether it's tracking guitars or the whole band. People are used to close-miking amps, but I'd have a mic out around the back, as well, and then balance the two. Also, you shouldn't have to use EQ in the studio if the instruments sound right. You should be able to get the right tones simply with the science of microphone placement.
I'm not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn't come into it.
It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.
Just because people say no to you, doesn't mean you should say no to yourself.
We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.