Duncan Sheik

It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do.

Lately I've been a workaholic. I'm in the studio all the time and I've helped to produce a couple of artists.

A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

I was drafted and went to Korea where I had an opportunity to create a production team that did dramatic and comedy shows. I had also done a little disc jockeying.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.