I truly believe, as an institution, most major labels should just die.

I've worked with all sorts of random people - everybody from Metallica to Britney Spears to Ozzy Osbourne to Michael Jackson to the Beastie Boys. I've got a really strange CV. It's interesting - I work with a lot of these disparate, different people to learn what it's like to work with random people.

I think that growing up very poor in a very wealthy town gave me a sense of being an outsider, and I hated it when I was growing up.

I won't complain about touring, because I really do believe that a public-figure musician complaining about being a public-figure musician is just absurd. Like, 'Boo hoo hoo! I have to stand on stage and people pay attention to me!'

One of the nice things about licensing music to movies or advertisements is you can reach a lot of people who normally wouldn't hear music.

I truly believe, as an institution, most major labels should just die.

I'd rather be around broken people who have a degree of humility, and just get on with their work.