If you narrow the playing field, the next generation has less to put out, to eat and regenerate from.

Retirement: a brand new beginning! How wonderful!

You have to constantly redefine who you are.

I think I have to expand my creativity a bit, because it's difficult for critics to be, "Oh, this person writes their own lyrics and sometimes writes their own beats and sometimes makes her own videos." They funnel me through, "Oh, is it as good as blah-blah's record, which has had 50 million writers on it?"

You have to have your fashion stylist person not sell out and sell your s - t to another pop star because they can pay them twice as much, and do it for the belief and the love of art.

If you narrow the playing field, the next generation has less to put out, to eat and regenerate from.

Music that was made in the 60s and 70s did come from a really soulful place. The seed for the songs written in the 90s were planted in those songs, even though they were samples.