If you sold a million records, the only way you could be disappointed is if the guy down the street sold seven million. But you've got to start dodging bullets once you've sold that many records, because everybody wants to kill you. We're not in that position. We can still be very successful and not have to worry about wearing bulletproof vests.

If you are trying to think ahead musically, it is not going to help you. It is better to ignore what is happening melodically and just look at the little dots coming at you and the corresponding colors and try to do it at the right time.

What makes that song, I think, is how stark it is.

I don't really go to clubs so I don't know what sounds are made there.

There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process.

I've had a long career and I want to continue to have a long career. The way to do that is not to go away.

I got in touch with the creative process between the age of 14 and 16, mainly because I was alone so much.