No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic.

I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.

Sometimes, I think the way the music business has been destructive and the way the fans are been put through it and try to navigate through it, so much is so foreign to what musicians would actually want to do or what would be natural to them.

Especially in music, you wonder, Okay, should I still be doing this? Like, are you overstaying your welcome at the party? But I don't know.

It's so easy to criticize your own time, and I see that as a problem, even for myself, as a listener.

In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs.