I don't want names, but you have to have bumped into some pretty nasty artists with pretty big chips on their shoulders. I'd like an anecdote about the most obnoxious personality you had the misfortune of working with, albeit as anonymously as you feel comfortable divulging.

Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along.

Theres no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty.

Steven Tyler isn't in Aerosmith anymore, but his gravestone will probably say something about Aerosmith.

You could be your own spotlight!

I don't see the songs as uplifting, but rather as trying to make lemonade from lemons, or whatever. When I listen to them, I understand the context. I don't like to pepper songs with my own experiences, though.

I always think about opportunity and how you regret the things you don't do.