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.

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

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

I'm really into boxing. I go to a gym and I'm friends with a trainer who's a pretty famous boxing trainer and I train with him.

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

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.

Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what's important to you, does not make you weaker.