I play popular songs. This is not some obscure, unusual music. This is popular music.

I think people like feeling miserable just as much as they like feeling happy.

Real music is what I consider to be uncorporatized music, the music that just happens. I feel like that's not a very well-known thing.

There's this food that's evolved over thousands of years and people have made their own kind of thing, but it's not art-food, yet. It can be, but it's just food. It's the thing that people do because they have to, because they need it. I feel music is one of those things, too.

You have a history of art-music that you equate with music. That's what I love about that term art-music. It separates itself from music-music, the music people have always made.

I don't think music is an art any more than cooking food is an art.

Because I have something to say doesn't mean everyone has to take it too seriously or get too upset that it rubs them the wrong way.