“AC/DC, Def Leppard, Alice Cooper - I learned stories of all these guys...” — Rico Love Quote

“AC/DC, Def Leppard, Alice Cooper - I learned stories of all these guys. That's when I fell in love with Queen, which is one of my favorite bands of all time... I started paying attention to what made music good. I started paying attention to why I liked it.”

“It takes a different mindset to be successful in anything; that's why there's not a lot of super duper successful people, because it's guys I know who may be ten times more talented than me, but they don't work as hard.”

“It's just a lot of fun to be able to see your ideas come into fruition. And to see people translate the things that come out of my mind vocally. And to be able to produce vocals and give people my point of view musically. And to be able to sit in the crowd and see people sing the song that I wrote, it's an amazing feeling.”

“Alice Walker's words have such rhythm and scream music.”

“In the back of my mind, when we were developing 'Next to Normal,' I always heard Alice Ripley.”

“When I write, I mostly listen to Alice Coltrane or Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou, something that's not distracting but that keeps you from thinking about just one thing.”