There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.

A riff can take on the aspect of a chorus in a listener's psyche.

I think the media's the kind of thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.

I have very little interest in the bottom line or signing artists to help make the label profit. That's a lucky, unique position to be in, but it all comes out in the wash.

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

I'm one of those people that you have to keep your eye on or I'll wander off into the woods and forget to come back.

I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.