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

There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows.

I think the thing you're seeing now with the music industry is that the people who have tight-knit communities are now able to really hold each other up because of the internet tools. And the really top-down pyramid scheme of major labels and typical superstars isn't sustainable anymore because the system has collapsed.

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

I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.

The key is to just focus on the spots where the love is real, because you can just drive yourself crazy focusing on the negativity, focusing on the relationships that are irreparable and just aren't going to work, trying to convince the haters that you are indeed lovable. So much of that is wasted energy.

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?