It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.

At first people thought I was really arrogant and a snob about music because I'm so intense about my production and sound, and because they knew I didn't like new music so much.

When I hear music, it's visual; I see things.

Nine out of ten groups that came out in '89 are gone. I'm still here.

When I'm making my music, I'm writing it, I'm producing it, I'm playing all the instruments, I'm performing. It's my own world where I do what I feel, and nobody tells me anything.

I basically camped out for a year and a half in an Airstream trailer on the beach out in front of the studio. I had no idea what I was gonna do, what kind of album I was gonna make - all I knew was that I wanted to sit there and just take in whatever came.

I fell in love with Paris the first time I went.