It Betrays Hubris On The Part Of

Find People Who Think Like You And Stick With Them. Make Only Music You Are Passionate About. Work Only With People You Like And Trust. Don't Sign Anything.

Toast Is Bread Made Delicious And Useful. Un-toasted Bread Is Okay For Children's Sandwiches And Sopping Up Barbecue Sauce, But For Pretty Much All Other Uses, Toast Is Better Than Bread. An Exception Is When The Bread Is Fresh From The Oven, Piping Hot, With Butter Melting All Over It. Then It's Fantastic, But I Would Argue That Bread Fresh Out Of The Oven Is A Kind Of Toast. Because I'm An Asshole And I Refuse To Be Wrong About Something.

I'm Not A Particularly Good Cook. Part Of It Is That It Is The Kind Of Cooking Anybody Could Do If They Bothered. It's Improvisational. I Cook With Whatever I Have Laying Around.

Of The People Who Cook On Television, I Have Admired People Like Jacques Pepin, Julia Child, Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver And A Few Others Because They Are Free Of Drama, Display Good Taste And Masterful Technique, And Use Clear Exposition To Bring You Up To Speed.

I'm Only Interested In Working On Records That Legitimately Reflect The Band's Own Perception Of Their Music And Existence. If You Commit Yourselves To That As A Tenet Of The Recording Methodology, Then I Will Bust My Ass For You.