Let the business take care of itself. If you get involved in the business, every hour that you're involved in business is an hour that you're not practicing. And every hour that you're not practicing is another hour further away from where you want to be.

Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.

My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.

Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

If Picasso walked into Disney looking for a job, they would throw him out on the street. Couldn't draw good enough.

At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.