I do what I want. I try to be nice to everybody. When I fail, I try to apologize.

While we're over here blocked up in our departments and locked up in our own judgments and dealing with our own crazy problems, they're over there dealing with equivalent problems. One of the things that I am so frightened by lately is that men are having just as difficult a time striking a balance as we are.

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?

If I simply do what I've always done, it's never failed me.

Those who can ask without shame are viewing themselves in collaboration with-rather than in competition with-the world.

If your writing is good, if it resonates, if it connects the dots for anybody out there, the lovers will come, the haters will come, support will come — sometimes in the form of money, sometimes in the form of something less expected — and it balances.

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