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Bands don't play the whole LP. They play a selection of the songs that they like.

It's not very often that I like new bands.

I know that starting out as a young band, it's really easy to get lost with bands that sound the same or with the plethora of music that's out there.

When I was in top 40 bands, I always had to learn new material and new styles.

I've created several musical trends, really. That's not because I'm so far out and fabulous. It's because most bands have no ideas of their own. They're so desperate they'll grab at any old straw.

I have a feeling a lot of the records I grew up listening to and the records I still like, as hard as musicians worked making them, I feel like they were really enjoying what they were going through. They weren't just going through the process. You can tell that with certain things that you listen to.

I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their early albums very stripped down, then each album becomes bloated.

I grew up listening to The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and every record those bands put out was very unique in its own right. I have that mentality. too: if a song sounds like something I've already done, then I'll throw it out, because I want each record to be a progression.

Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It's often while listening to a song that ideas for my fashion collections formed.