I feel like I've given up a lot of my fantasies. I just want to do things differently, and to a lot of people that's annoying. I like weird stuff. I always hoped if we had a big success it would be on our own terms.

Now, the good of business is put above anything else, as corporations have become the new ruling body. Most decisions seem to be made like ones of a medieval king: whatever makes profit while ignoring and repressing the truth about whatever suffering it may cause (like pop music, for that matter).

Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!

With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?

People are always arguing: New York or L.A.? They're both great places, you know.

People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn't like that.

If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I don't think the second option is some big sellout.