35 Quotes by Justin Chancellor

If you start to believe the hype about yourself, then you start to lose the bigger picture, and your focus is in the wrong place.

You have to be completely brave and sincere about what you're doing to just not ever compromise and change it to what you think someone else might want.

In the end, our way of writing music is a long process of experimentation. We enjoy the luxury of taking this very seriously and giving it the time that it needs.

When you're getting older, you think about what you have to offer, and what's the point of your life.

I'm a big Beethoven fan, and you'll struggle to find a three-minute song on any of his stuff.

If you're going to play bass, then play bass how you play bass. You can learn technique and theory, but we want to hear what you have to offer.

We're our own worst critics.

I used to aspire to being more of a traditional bass player, to be honest. People say I play it like a guitar - and I was a guitar player when I was growing up. I started learning when I was eight, and that's what I was fascinated with in my teen years.

My mother was sort of mildly religious, but the rest of us, you know, we didn't really have it forced on us.