In the '70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn't really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed. When I grew up in the '70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn't think you had a choice.

I'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.

Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.

People don't buy records anymore. I don't know how people can support themselves.

It's not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.

Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.

I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I'm really working on him about that.