I think I've been addicted to openness since long before my rock career. I was terrible as a teenager. I used to go out of my way to make people uncomfortable with personal details. I was always fascinated by the idea that we have these weird, random boundaries between what we do and don't show.

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

When you're an artist, nobody ever tells you or hits you with the magic wand of legitimacy. You have to hit your own head with your own handmade wand. And you feel stupid doing it.

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

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?

Nobody ever sees me. Thank you.

I think I've always felt as a band and as a musician and a music business person, I've always felt like an outsider, period.