One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like me have been forced to face our own weird mess about ourselves and what we thought it meant to become musicians.

I get really fantastic results when I just get out of my own way.

Take on the pain and wear it as a shirt.

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

I suppose I'm happy to sell my time and energy, but I'm not happy to sell my initial creative time.

I want to be happy. i want to make people happy. i do not need to be rich to do that.

It's fine for people to say, "If you can't stand the heat and if you can't stand the criticism, then just don't use the Internet"; unfortunately, that is not an option. The Internet is where we make our living and where we make our work, especially if we're independents and we cannot afford to not engage, because that's where our business is driving from. It's just not an option.