You can't make everybody love what you do, but you can know how great you feel doing it.

There are certain people who have become better artists, but they're brilliant at marketing. I think someone who's been phenomenal like that is Madonna.

Tonight I feel like a prisoner on fire, waiting desperately... denied, sentenced forever more. Only your love can set me free.

Whoever best serves the song is going to be served by the song

With the internet, things are so much more immediate. People taste-test things to see if they want to buy the CD

When your car is about to go off a cliff, it’s a weird time to be thinking about gas mileage and drag coefficients; better to take the right control action—look out the window and steer or use the brake until you’re back on course.

I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment.