I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay.
If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.
I'm not an old-fashioned, booze-and-drugs rock 'n' roller. For me, rock 'n' roll is all about doing whatever you want. It's about defying convention and being who you are. I'd rather go swimming or running or kite flying.
Cool to me is following what you believe in.
Music is split up now into little pockets.
So I have probably 1,200 little bits of paper with notes, which when the Ambien really starts to kick in, don't really make much sense. Say what you like about prescription drugs, but they do help when you're sequencing a record.