The difference between me and other people in my generation is instead of saying the Internet's killing the record business, I say, 'Who cares about the record business, the Internet is enhancing music.

To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.

Americans think that if you're popular, there must be something wrong with you.

I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.

I'm in the trenches; I do the best work I can always do. Having said that, the way that what I do converges with the outside world is fascinating to me. Because it ebbs and flows. People's interest and understanding, it changes all the time.

Around 1974, I graduated into the occult, and spent a sold six or seven years immersed in the Kabala and the Chaldean, Celtic, and Druidic traditions I also became fascinated with Aleister Crowley, the nineteenth-century magician who shared these beliefs.

Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.