Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head.

We tune down a full step when we play but I never miss a note. I've learned how to keep my voice.

I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life.

God would have to beam into me what I was doing and what the album actually sounded like because usually when I start a project like that, I already know what the album sounds like before I start it.

Good records - from my point of view, where I grew up which was Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull... bands that were pushing the envelope a little - musically and in production.

I could play everything but could never take a lead. My brain just doesn't work like that.

To actually put the time and energy into an album that would be better than Pull would be a hell of a lot of work, because I took that band really seriously, way more seriously than people took us. If you go back and listen to the records, you can hear it.

The songs were really complicated. I used to meet people in bar bands who were trying to play our songs and they were really struggling with it. Technically it was really difficult stuff.

It's like, on my solo stuff, every single person who buys the record, gets it. On the other stuff, the masses... when you have a hit on the radio, not everyone's going to get it. They are going to buy it for the hit.

I was just going more for what I've always been influenced by, European music.

A producer should only be there to enable an artist to be himself.

I'm a child of the 70's; influenced mostly by albums that had a wide variety of style.

I wouldn't do just a tour, it would have to be an album, and the album would have to beat Pull.

In general, I don't feel artists should need producers.

Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head.

The main thing is that I've been studying composition for the last four years. I'd say it's the life experience combined with the lessons that enabled me to go much further.

I think it's important to know your limitations too.

Rock stardom and all that stuff like that was never like my main M.O., my main M.O. is musical growth, and if I become a rock star in the process, great!

We were lumped into the Lite Metal radio bands.

I'm not financially insecure anymore either so I don't have to sit there and get on the latest Poison tour just to make money, which is what a lot of them are doing.

I've studied voice from a few different people for years.

As a musician, basically the masses never thought I was a musician.

I'd like to tour, but again, to tour my music now would take a bigger band.

I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it's a great frequency and it's great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it.

It's a little bit more like I want to give this to the people that are really into it first - I don't have a lot of desire to be like Bon Jovi or something like that, I really want to concentrate on the music.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.

You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.

One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future.

It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election, then Messrs. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize this country and help create a socialist America.

Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain.

Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.

As I've been able to once again gain the benefits of speed work, I'm enjoying my running more and more.

You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain.

We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation.

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

'Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them.

The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice.

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.