For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars.

When you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.

When you connect with people, they want to help you.

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

We can only connect the dots we collect, which makes everything you write about you... your connections are the thread that you weave into the cloth that becomes the story that only you can tell.

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.

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