I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.

I'd rather do something I love badly than to feel bad about not doing something I love.

I've been involved in something which was chaotic and insane. All I can say now is that I am, and intend to stay, a single man.

You have to be really loyal to the people that supported you when you were coming up.

Sometimes I write with music on, and if I'm in a good flow, I don't even hear it.

I've always said that the artist dies twice. And the first death is the hardest which is the career death, the creative death. The physical death is an inevitability.