One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.

That's the real endeavor: to try to create that direct conduit from the pure consciousness of your creative voice to the person who's a craftsman who can go into the world and consistently deliver new things worth paying attention to.

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.

To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.

I'm an experimental artist in a field that doesn't celebrate experimentation. It celebrates self-destruction, which I guess you could say is a creative endeavor.

That's the age that people are exploited, exploitable, and they're easily manipulated. The problem with me is, you can't manipulate me anymore. I've seen it, I know it, I've been there. And that's partially why, particularly in America, you see issues with artists as they get older. And they like to keep it a young man's game. Because that's how they can fudge around with the rules.

I don't wanna play this kind of cartoon character anymore.