It is cool to have a label head that is also a songwriter, in a band, and produces records.

I'm constantly fighting with my manager to reduce the amount of time I have to spend on promotional activities, so I can get back in the studio and work on new music.

The reason I started with prostitutes was solely to work on my negotiating skills. Once I mastered negotiating with naked women, dealing with Interscope was a piece of cake.

It is cool to have a label head that is also a songwriter, in a band, and produces records.

The internet has not granted us more control in relation to the record company because we're still bound by an agreement with them not to release our music without their consent. But they generally let us do what we want, anyway, so it doesn't matter who's officially in control.

I enjoy listening to the albums of my youth as much as ever.

It could appear that I'm some kind of natural genius, but it's just a million small lessons I've picked up over the years.