Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment. – Steve Albini
Find people who think like you and stick with them. Make only music you are passionate about. Work only with people you like and trust. Dont sign anything. – Steve Albini
The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh. – Steve Albini
A more important reason is that the bands will intuitively trust someone they think is a peer, and who speaks fondly of the same formative rock and roll experiences. – Steve Albini