I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.

The only two things that scare me are God and the IRS.

You just have to find that thing that's special about you that distinguishes you from all the others, and through true talent, hard work, and passion, anything can happen.

You got to realise that when I was 20 years old, I had a house, a Mercedes, a Corvette and a million dollars in the bank before I could buy alcohol legally.

When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the time.

If you're not sincere with it, you shouldn't say anything at all.

I would go to sleep with headphones on. My mom and pop - they would have music loud enough to shake the walls.

I'm so secluded, and I'm so private.

I don't take any shorts. I don't say, 'Okay, it's good enough.' I try to get exactly what I'm hearing in my head to the tape, and I won't let it move until then.