The secret is planning your work and working your plan. If you don't know where you are going, how will you know when you arrive? You can't stumble upon your destination.

I probably could have a hip-hop-style entourage of 40 people coming with me to the club or whatever, and I don't do that. And I think sometimes maybe I should. It just makes things easier - if you don't like being by yourself, maybe just don't do it ever.

The bottom line is we must get off our duff and make an effort to succeed. Trust me on this, when you see someone successful in any of the arts they have been willing to make an extra effort.

Onstage, I don't feel any glory from people clapping in the audience, but when they're pushing me to do something new that feels good.

Great work comes from great joy. Leave the angst for the movies; do art - that is fun.

I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.

It's hard to find other musicians that push you to go somewhere new all the time.