Maybe in the future I'll put out someone's one-off project, but generally I don't have time.

Playing an old record doesn't interest me at all. It's exactly the opposite of what I want to do.

You make your work and you can't ask for approval when you're doing it. Otherwise, it's going to be untruthful in some way.

I'm a producer in the old-school way - not just some slacker working on Pro Tools.

I am definitely less and less interested in music made by people that exist today, people that are living. I just see them as part of the whole stupid process of the music business, desperate (even if they feign indifference) to get noticed, trying to "make it" in the stinking music business, to become "famous" etc, and it disgusts me.

Nina Simone was an entertainer. Bob Dylan was an entertainer. Anyone that can occupy a piece of music and make the air catch on fire at that moment is a true entertainer. That's how I view it. That's what I was meant to do. I love doing it. That's why I'm on earth.

I don't throw my body down on the stage at all anymore because I'm sure I'd snap like a twig.