Dean Ween

If you can find one thing in your life that can keep you in the moment, you're totally lucky.

I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and get my captain's license, see if I can get paid to be out here every day.

The juxtaposition between fishing and touring couldn't be greater.

On tour, I'll get up at 5 p.m. and go to bed at 8 in the morning. With fishing, it's the exact opposite. Fishing is the only healthy thing I do. Touring is such a grind; it's the opposite of healthy.

When you make a great record, it's around forever.

If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.

We don't know what we're doing. We don't have a plan. We don't sit down and calculate it.

It's quantity, not quality.

When you first start doing it, being on tour is inspiring, because you've never been anywhere.

I want to make 20, 30, 50 studio records.

I get sick when I think about someone going to iTunes and downloading two songs off our album. It's not meant to be listened to that way.