It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.

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.

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

I don't believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they've never heard before. That's just unreasonable.

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

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.

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