If something was confusing or difficult, then it was a positive thing. Confusion is a positive.

If you want to make something that's aggressive and challenging and peculiar and strange and trying to step outside of a traditional approach, some people aren't going to like it.

I honestly and truly love and believe in what I'm making, and it's not a joke, whereas some people would take a singer-songwriter sitting behind an acoustic guitar as sincere.

On the one hand, rock is so predictable, but at the same time, the basic idea that an artist can cut through everything and make something that they believe in or make something that they love or speaks to them personally, that it can cut through the bullshit. But at the same time, the cliches of sincerity can kill that.

Hip-hop is interesting, but American pop music doesn't have the kind of diversity that the UK does.

If something was confusing or difficult, then it was a positive thing. Confusion is a positive.

I liked it when there was a certain amount of people who did not like what I was doing. If anything, I thought that was a positive thing.