And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music.

[Commercial radio] is owned by one or two corporations now, and they're not in the music business. They're in the advertising business.... So let's not kid ourselves. If you want to hear music, go buy a guitar.

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes they're ill-advised.

And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.

The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.

There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie.