I made so many recordings with junky mics and crappy mixing consoles, you have to use what your tools are and in some ways that's been inspirational..

Compression is a necessary evil. The artists I know want to sound competitive. You don't want your track to sound quieter or wimpier by comparison. W….

I'm constantly working on something new, whether it's a Garbage song, or for someone I'm producing or a song for film or TV whatever it is. I guess I….

I sort of feel I'm only as good as the last record I made. I was on as soon as I finish it I immediately put it aside and move on to the next project..

I'm a gear head. I love gear. If I have the choice, of course I'd rather use a great microphone, a Neumann microphone and a vintage Neve board..

If you can just focus on creating your art whether that's music or writing a book or painting trust me it is really hard to balance that with a perso….

What I love about analogue is it really forces you to go for a performance. I hear these young bands play perfect and they've been manipulated so muc….

I'd work on Garbage or I'd edit a song or writing here, but I was able to do a lot of things with my family. There are things outside of Garbage, the….

I love analogue tape and I love digital, they both have pluses and minuses and I don't really feel like I have to use one or the other. I love digita….

I think the Cosmic Psychos were a band that was highly influential on the Seattle so called grunge scene. I know that Kurt and Nirvana were fans, the….

I think because I worked really hard before I had any kind of success it kept me grounded. You just don't know how long that success is gonna be ther….

You need 10,000 hours to figure out how to be good at something and I agree with that to a certain extent. It's like everything you do to lead up to ….

I'm trying to be present in my daughters life as much as I can. I didn't have any kids or really any family. I have a family but I just dove into wor….

I found when we released Not Your Kind of People it was hard for me to go back on tour, especially when we had some runs that were 7 or 8 weeks in a ….

It's funny, I don't really feel that nostalgic. I only recently started putting up some photos from some of the sessions I've done over the years and….

All music done, as I said, through low res mp3 and $5 earbuds and so I think as a producer or a band you want your music to sound good in that medium….

If I had had success when I was early twenties I'm sure I would have lost my mind, I would've just partied like crazy and probably blown everything I….

There weren't even cell phones when we started Garbage, we'd have to pull over to the side of the road and use a payphone to call the venue to make s….

The first Garbage record sounds bizarre, it's not a pristine sounding album. We ran everything through stomp boxes and through samplers and that defi….

I think also just being from the Midwest, my dad was a stoic Midwesterner, he always told me never take anything for granted and you have to work for….

Now with the world being such a global community, the way the Internet has sort of leveled the playing field because you have so many things that are….