"It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I remember a time if you'd signed to a major label it was such a sell out! But now... unless you've signed to a big label, you're a failure now."

"I wouldn't change anything. I think that it's important to let things happen, and stay 'happened'. I think that's all part of the learning curve, part of fate. I'm just glad that it happened."

"You can achieve only that which you will do."

"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."

"The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan."

"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."