But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.

When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.

I can't remember all the times I've tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass

My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it.

We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can't get across that gully.

There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.

It's impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It's the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.