How you sound. How you look. Are you fat? Those are things that could be really irritating.

It’s not easy to ask… asking makes you vulnerable.

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

I make the music that I want to make and make the show that I want to make. If you like it, you come. If you don't like it, you don't have to.

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

The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist

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.