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I love good, loud speakers.

I consider myself a pretty good extemporaneous speaker. Even though I don't like speaking in front of people, I don't think I'm bad at it.

Ultimately, the best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.

Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.

More and more, I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice. In death metal, a lot of guys are Eddie Van Halen disciples, but they take his style to really expressionistic places. It's a real pleasure for me to hear people pushing their craft.

When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.

I think the key attributes for a good speaker are someone that's articulate and someone that puts a fair amount of humour into what they do.

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

I'm an acoustical person.

One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.