Steve Albini

My dad, Frank Addison Albini, was a terrific shot with a rifle and had generally excellent hunting skills. While my dad loved hunting and fishing, he didn't romanticize them. He was filling the freezer, not intellectualizing some caveman impulse or proving his worth as a real man.

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.

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.

We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design.

Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food.

If the label presents them with a contract that the band don't want to sign, all the label has to do is wait. There are a hundred other bands willing to sign the exact same contract, so the label is in a position of strength.

No, not at all. I__ an atheist. You could say that I__ agnostic, but that__ just a certain kind of atheist (laughs). An atheist is someone who lacks a belief in a supernatural, and that__ me. I can__ say with absolute certainty that there is nothing beyond the material world, but there__ no reason for me to think there is. If I were a gambling man I would put all my money on there not being anything other than this universe.