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

It's more important for me to have a good record with good music and be part of a movie that's good and where the music is used in a really great way. That's the important thing. The other stuff you want to say about it, I don't care.

One of the things I've really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are. Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.

I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.

I don't envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.

But I can't confront the doubts I have. I can't admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I'm condemning the future to death so it can match the past.

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