You are an artist when you make someone feel something deep and unexpected.

The pattern's laid out on the bed With dozens of colors of thread But you've got the needle I guess that's the point in the end

The key is to just focus on the spots where the love is real, because you can just drive yourself crazy focusing on the negativity, focusing on the relationships that are irreparable and just aren't going to work, trying to convince the haters that you are indeed lovable. So much of that is wasted energy.

I firmly believe in music being as free as possible. Unlocked. Shared and spread. In order for artists to survive and create, their audiences need to step up and directly support them.

Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.

I feel that part of my life's artwork is creatively dealing with all this negativity and anger and rage and hatred coming from whatever corners it's coming from and somehow manifesting all of that anger into something positive, which is such a hard job.

I feel an extraordinary amount of sympathy for anybody working at a major label right now because their lives are over.