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

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.

I suffer from manic-depressive disorder, and I've chosen not to take medication for it. Because of that, every once in a while I go through manic episodes and really depressed episodes.

Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.

Well, a lot of successes come by mistake.

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.

Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated.