When you're too concerned about branding, you're restricting yourself.

I am impressed when music matters, when genres are broken, when spirits are lifted, when people make a difference, and when people are true to themselves.

I'm always concerned about marketing or commercial philosophies. I can't feel good about having my name on a bottle of perfume that comes from a factory making perfume with all the same ingredients as every other perfume. I can't feel good about a factory overseas polluting the air for something with my name on it. I'm okay with music - because it's digital or a CD. My music is my emotion in a bottle. But how is a perfume supposed to reflect me? How is a sweatshirt supposed to represent me?

Since our online libraries are so extensive, we think we can make all the right decisions about our personal health and well-being by pushing buttons. It's not intuitive anymore. That's the internet. Before the net, we would have gone to the community or our families to see what we should do. We often feel more isolated on our own little islands because of it.

Art and life go together. I have to have a life filled with experiences to make art, and I have to have art around me to live well.

I can't understand marketing. I think it's because I never looked at what I do as a job. I've rebelled against that and I will continue to.

You can have the best of intentions and think you're doing the right thing but you fall down when you're going against your own instinct.