No one wants to be hated, in public, by lots of people.

A lot of people do talk about the demise of the album, but I still believe that if an artist tries hard to make a great album, people will buy it and listen to it as an album, rather than just a collection of random songs.

I'd much rather go out and have music randomly presented to me by different DJs than stay home and discover it on my own.

LA is such a crumbling mess of a city. Basically in all my years of travelling, I haven't found another city in the western world that interest me as much as Los Angeles - which might sound like heresy, but most cities, history has already happened and the people living there are sort of living on the bones of the thousand years of history that's already happened there. Whereas LA is always reinventing itself.

I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor.

My uncle is from Argentina, so I grew up hearing Spanish. My Spanish isn't very good, but my pronunciation isn't terrible.

I used to have a lot of envy for those musicians who have been universally loved.