We made happy sounds because we were upset... just trying to make a positive situation out of a negative one.

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

When you go through a negative situation, don't think about it. Make it positive.

It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.

It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.

If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.