When you trust people to help you, they often do.

It's fine for people to say, "If you can't stand the heat and if you can't stand the criticism, then just don't use the Internet"; unfortunately, that is not an option. The Internet is where we make our living and where we make our work, especially if we're independents and we cannot afford to not engage, because that's where our business is driving from. It's just not an option.

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?

When you cannot joke about the darkness of life, that’s when the darkness takes over.

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.

Crowdfunding as an idea itself isn't new - bands have been doing it since the dawn of time.

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