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

You know what, the drummer is my manager. He's busy. And I'm busy. I don't need the dough, though. But having said that, there's a limit to how much bad music I wanna play. I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn't great.

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

It really doesn't matter to me what people say about me anymore.

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.

Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that's interesting.

I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.