I don't mind not being cool.

There's this idea that artists are free and that means that we can do whatever we want to do. And it's very important to engage with this idea, just as human beings, that we are free to do what we wanna do. So the real question becomes, then, what do we wanna do? And as one gets to know oneself, one finds that there are things that return again and again that you wanna do.

Being such a big band is never a problem but it can be distracting.

There is something glamorous to me in taking a bit of a beating and keeping on going.

I think in life everyone needs to be broken in some way.

All the children of America, up to age seven or eight or nine or ten - they're really great artists. So here we've got this amazing work that very few people pay any attention to, and it's not valued by the culture.

I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.