Being an artist is a job for life.

My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.

Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.

Possessions are a way of turning money into problems.

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.

I have these headphones, which pretty much exclude everything else so that you can really completely control the sound that you're hearing. I don't use them very much, I have to say. I very rarely listen on headphones.