I think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is how do we make people pay for music? What if we started asking, how do we let people pay for music?

You know what’s really cool? Wake up every morning, decide what you feel like doing, and do it.

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

If your writing is good, if it resonates, if it connects the dots for anybody out there, the lovers will come, the haters will come, support will come — sometimes in the form of money, sometimes in the form of something less expected — and it balances.

I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life.

If you love people enough, they will give you everything.

I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated.