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I didn't graduate from college, so I might as well be on Atlantic Records, right?

I knew I wanted to make a concept record in song-cycle form, like my favorite Marvin Gaye records where everything just continuously flows.

My autobiography would be 'Loves music, loves art, works hard, writes music, tours the world, makes records.'

I grew up with vinyl records and remember the pleasure and the kind of buzz that I got from buying a beautiful vinyl record with the sleeve and the lyrics - all that kind of tactile experience that you could get from an old vinyl record.

I've put out records over the years, whether it's with Blackfield or No-Man or Bass Communion or Porcupine Tree, that are pop records, ambient records, metal records, singer-songwriter records.

When I'm making records, I like it to be quite fast. Don't let the band learn it too well.

Primal Scream could be the biggest band in the world. They are fantastic when they make rock records - once every 10 years.

The first rule of rock and roll is it's all about live. Then you have to learn a second craft, which is making records. It should go in that order.

You ask people to fall in love with you. To need you. To want you. To buy your records and come see you. You have an emotional contract with people. To break up is to violate that contract.

My goal has always been to make classic records, classic albums. Sometimes the recording process and the era it was recorded in means the production leans in a particular way, but to me they are all part of the same process.

I don't have any records from back in 2002, but when people called and asked me to speak to groups, I went and spoke to groups.

I played on Asia records with Geoff Downes.

World records at 19. I don't want that. Later, yes. And when it comes, I'll learn to live with it, but it won't be my first love.

I'm the one who has made all the sacrifices. Those are my American records, not the country's.

We always just go out there and do what we do. That's the way we approach all of our records.

When I was a kid, I never thought I would ever be able to make records and never really thought seriously about a musical career because a musical career was being Fabian or Frankie Avalon or something. It didn't make any sense. There wasn't any possibility to get into that world.

I can walk into Tower Records, go get my box set, take out my Steve Miller credit card, and the clerk will look at me and go, 'Thanks, next.'

I produced the Buckcherry album and I just finished a band called American Pearl on Wind-Up Records. That's Creed's label. They're pretty rocking. Now I'm looking for another band to produce.

It's not like making records is terrible. Still, I do find the writing of the songs and the live shows to be the things that give you the most clear picture of what it's all about.

It's one of those records that will stand forever. I really can't imagine anyone touching it.

My favorite moment of the whole thing was when John Belushi suggested that I get a hold of all the blues records I could so I could research the music.