Avant-garde is the one area of music that has never changed. It doesn't mean anything.

I'm usually pretty happy. I don't ever really get disturbed in any way, or feel like I need to go back and change something.

Once you're an addict, you're always an addict, so just because I found something good to do doesn't mean I'm not going to hurt myself doing it.

I still have a lot of faith that there's very few people who are savvy enough to actually produce a good sounding copy of the record.

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about them, and know that everybody's going to want to work on some of them.

Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at some of their six-figure executive expense accounts. All those lawsuits can't be cheap, either.