White people don't sing together very often, and when they do, it's about the celebrity of the song. The singing at my shows is all about harmony.

You can't really control how people hear stuff. It's hard to remember that. I have to let go of it.

The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.

When someone really goes to tell you something about what they're thinking, they're going to wear that experience with them. That's what you have to share.

It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.

The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.

I think people use temp music quite a bit, but the people who write the temp music don't ever really learn that their music was inspiring a movie.