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.

If you're going to make work and you're going to write and you're going to put yourself out there and perform, you will be belittled, you will be insulted, you will be called a standard collection of names, you will be accused, and you just have to stand there and continue to work and find a way to not let those things poison you.

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 think I can define my entire life, virtuosity and business philosophy down to the core fundamental that I absolutely hate being told what to do. But like any artist or any human being out there, I desperately want to be loved, and I spend my entire life trying to balance those two facts.

I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.

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