People are great. But there's people who you get together with and you talk and you go away feeling energized, you feel inspired. And then there's people who you talk with and you go away feeling horrible, feeling drained, feeling like you're incapable of doing anything. Those people are psychic vampires and I now stay away from them.

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like

One thing that I do ask myself when I'm in the creative process is, 'Does the world need this?'

I have a very beautiful life with great friends and I look forward to waking up every day. Every day is a vacation but every day is a workday. I don't want to take vacations because music is my life and if I escape from music, that's the same thing as death. So a vacation is death to me. Sitting on the beach for a week is my idea of hell. That would kill me.

You need to believe in something that's bigger than yourself. I think that's what everybody wants to believe in that.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way

As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don't support you any more.