When you are in your 20's and 30's, you just want a hit record and you don't really care how it happens
It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.
I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.
I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.
I don't ever wish I was somebody else.