I was asked to do TV ads for Macintosh. Nowadays, I think anybody would jump at that but, at the time, it didn't feel appropriate for what I was trying to stand for.

I always managed to fly a bit below the radar, but high enough to avoid colliding into anything.

If you think of any long-term artist that makes music throughout several decades, you would hope that it's autobiographical and a form of self-expression, and that's certainly how I approach my music.

It's satisfying to put out new music. And I think that's the context in which I'm comfortable revisiting things from the past.

My problem with iTunes is that I don't have any say in how I'm represented on the site.

I feel less and less like that every year, and I guess maybe even more so with every new record that I put out. I just think, as the years go by, it's harder and harder to really find a reason to be annoyed that you made something that people want to continuously talk about. Certainly there are contexts in which the record can be discussed which will get me on the defensive and make me want to put some kind of calibration or some kind of context on what the record means in relation to my career as a whole.

I don't hate what I love. I love what I love and I hate what I hate.