I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict.

Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.

I really believe that if I make records that are indispensable to my audience, they'll go out and spend money to buy them, even if they've already downloaded them. If they can afford it. If they can't, I'd rather they be able to download it than not get it at all.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.

What's important is you wake up in the morning and something doesn't exist, and when you finish you day's work something is in the world that wasn't there before.

Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.