Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride.

It's a beautiful thing to be that committed to something that you get so much joy from, but it is like a sick addiction, because sometimes it's incredibly volatile, incredibly painful, and very frustrating. A man shouldn't be defined by his work, but I am.

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.

Well, a lot of successes come by mistake.

It doesn't matter what kind of problems a family is having; it should always stay in the family.

I'm not sober. I haven't done drugs in 3 1/2 years, so I call myself clean.

I want my ex-wife and children to be happy.