Patrick Carney

Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.

I buy five of the same shirts. I literally have six blue shirts. Now I have six green shirts.

There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.

It's an ear job, not an eye job.

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.