The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.

I don't like begging money from producers.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

My personal feeling is that human beings have this incredible capacity for denial.

I've changed my music from time to time so I'm hoping that I can completely change my life from time to time, too. Like live in another land, in another place, and just get completely soaked up in another way of being. Could be in this country or another country, somewhere were you can be reborn a number of times not just creatively, but personally as well. I guess I want to go through life as more than one person.

Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for.