I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing.

They came in the thousands from the whole human race to pay their respects at his last resting place.

To see both sides of a quarrel, is to judge without hate or alarm

But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there.

People want to be the first with the record, they want to be the first to know which songs are on the record, all that kind of stuff. So I like to just stall them a bit. Personally, I love the idea of an album that's completely new, that no one's heard any free downloads, any pre-record releases, all that kind of stuff, and nothing's been played on the radio. Totally virgin, you know, a sealed record. That's my ideal, but it's very hard to get anybody else to agree to do that.

Will there be any bartenders up there in Heaven, will the pubs never close?

I have to remind myself not to set boundaries.