Every time the industry gets powerful, and corporate thinking dominates what the music is, then the music really pales.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

After all those years of automatic success, you don't get nervous any more. It's really necessary to be nervous and be a little bit frightened. It pumps the adrenalin into you and you really get down there and try.

I don't really know why an idea comes to me. But all of a sudden, an idea comes and from experience I can intuit what something means when an interesting line pops up. Or I can intuit what an interesting choice might be. And I can try a couple of different choices, and see which one feels right, and then continue the song to see where it goes.

I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy.

Hide it in a hiding place where no one ever goes Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes

Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.