"I was probably pressing the gas pedal too hard. I was difficult and demanding, and a large part of the responsibility…"

"If you don’t take a certain risk, you stagnate. For us, stagnation was never an option."

"An album is a statement. Otherwise, there is no reason to make it."

"It fascinates me how little we actually know about music, and how much bigger it is than all of us."

"In that sense, Bog became a document of our disintegration, even though there is not a single word about it in the ly…"

"We play extremely well, but you have to be an ultra-astronaut not to be disturbed by the constant murmur of the audie…"

"We are just a litmus test of a country on the edge of a nervous breakdown."

"For me, Pips were what the Beatles were to George Martin."

"The best album I ever worked on was their Fred Astaire."

"Of course Pips are my child — I’m talking about the old Pips and the old songs I co-authored."