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

At a major label you can start to feel that you're working for them, and that any work you do, you're never going to see any benefit.

All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.

I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed and you're going to hear it in the music.

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.

Life is a series of problems to figure out how to solve gracefully and with dignity. That is what life is and I can't see it any other way.