You want to make sure this particular car is going to please the customer and then you're going to be rewarded with something that is going to please the shareholder.

The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.

Spending $1 for a brand new house would feel very, very good. Spending $1,000 for a ham sandwich would feel very, very bad. Spending $19,000 for a small family car would feel, well, more or less right. But as with physical pain, fiscal pain can depend on the individual, and everyone has a different threshold.

I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.

Sometimes I wish I could drive a car, but I'm gonna drive a car one day, so I don't worry about that.