I don't need to be rich anymore; I don't need to be a millionaire.

There are probably five songs in the world that I get excited about when I hear them on the radio.

I'm sort of a gay man trapped in a woman's body when it comes to music sometimes - it's crowded in here!

People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff.

I get to sit at home with the dogs on the sofa, record in a closet in the office, send them off and, if I'm lucky, make a million dollars.

I think that it depends what you mean by successful. If you mean 'make money' you need to be part of the machine unless you're one of those superhuman people who can do everything by yourself, and have workaholic tendencies and really good advisers and a good investor.

I was weirdly obsessed with music until I was 11, and then I turned into a nerd.