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Tower Records was a place to meet your friends, your co-workers or a place to meet new friends who shared a common love of music, literature and all things cultural.

Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.

I don't spend much time listening to the records when they're done. Usually I let go of it. Especially in the Eighties and Nineties - they were like product, almost.

I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.

Whenever I go to a new city, whether visiting or vacationing, I would always make that a point to get to the record store early on, just to get my bearings and see what was going on around town.

I keep on calling them records because they will always be records to me.

One of my favorite things to do is sit around and listen to old records... You're forced to listen to the whole thing. And it's so cool digging through the bins trying to find them. I get giddy about records.

Nobody sells records any more, and the only way you can actually do anything is to go out and play live.

I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.