When I was a kid and I bought a record, I ripped that thing open, I wanted to know who was playing what, what studio it was cut at, who was the string arranger, who was the engineer.

I'm so happy. I am able to see the world just by making music, just by doing the thing that I loved doing when I was five years old.

Music, for me, is completely self-indulgent. I write it, I play the instruments, I arrange it, I produce it. It's all about me - as it should be.

God forbid you sing about love. It's a lost concept.

I've lived my life dealing with everybody. And that's how it's always been for me.

Mothers love you to the end, and she didn't want to hold me back from my livelihood. So I left for a month and called her every couple of days. I came home and she died 24 hours later.

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.