The way the music industry is now geared, it's fewer accolades towards new and upcoming acts. New bands offer bright creativity. It's a set format. A venue would rather hire a DJ than a band, and that's a problem.

I do use my music to entertain myself, as indeed I use other people's music.

I could never be a member of a single party. I want the best of all worlds, thank you.

Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.

You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and boo-hiss everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental.

When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count.

Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept.