Quotes About Collaboration

With Alkaline Trio, we are who we are. We never really feel too confined, but when we get together, there is an Alkaline Trio sound, and when I go off and do something on my own, there is an element of freedom that I don't have with the Trio.

I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.

I love working with my band-mates in Alkaline Trio, but to make a rock record that was just mine was something that I wanted to do.

The whole cast of Sirphire' was a great fun to shoot with; singers Preet Harpal, Roshan Prince were like brothers while shooting and we formed our own trio.

I don't trip all over my ego. I don't mind being a second banana.

I'm about to start working with a singer I met on my last trip: she'll get international exposure, and I'll have a song out in that market sung in Cantonese.

I'm releasing a single. It's called 'Live it Up.' It was based on my Euro trip. I only write my own music. I don't let other people write it at all. So I've been working on that a lot. There's three singles coming out. The producer of The Fray who did their double-platinum album 'How to Save a Life,' I'm working with him. He's producing me.

Grace Slick was a total trip to work with. Lots of jokes and opinions. A strident individual and super talented!

I have become their idol. Like, Busta Rhymes has called me twice to come to rap with him, and Big Daddy Kane and Eric B and Rakim, I made a trip to do things with them.

I think we appreciate the musicianship we're surrounded with. Too many bands - it's an ego trip for the leader.

'Triple D' is not going anywhere. I enjoy highlighting my brothers and sisters in the business.

If I could go back in time, I would have loved to have done more with Triple H. He blossomed into a bigger star after I left. I regret, looking back now, that we didn't have more matches or better matches or at least one pay-per-view match where we could have really showed our best stuff - or, at least, I did.

Triple H and Shawn Michaels and all those guys are more than happy to let me be myself. They want me to do my thing.

In my family, Robin loves planning the trips. He does the itineraries and everything, always sends them out in a mass text.

Road trips are where you really build chemistry, spend a lot of time together and go to restaurants together.

Negotiation is empathy. It's almost trite to say that if you can't put yourself in the seat of the other person you're speaking with, you're not going to do well. It's not about being a bully, not about making offers people can't refuse.

The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win.

When I was a kid, my friends and I formed a band, Trombone Shorty's Brass Band. When I was six, I was a bandleader for my brother's band.

As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S. cannot go it alone in a policy that leaves American troops taking all the risk and American taxpayers paying all of the costs.

So, individually, my goal is to score a lot of goals and help Neymar. He can help us raise a lot of trophies, so we have to take care of him.

If we win trophies, we have the chance to win individual awards because it comes with the team targets.

Throughout the whole team, you have important players, but the main thing is the collective. It is the only way to get trophies.

When you have an individual trophy, of course, you are doing really well and deserve the credit but that credit goes to the team because they help you do better and better.

All the teams that win a big trophy, it is thanks to the collective, when each one takes pleasure to share with the others. This is how it works.