If you will, then you will, for nothing can withstand your will. As your faith is, so you are, where your mind is there you are.

I wonder how many eggs are in the golden goose?

I don't have the same restrictions that other people do because I never painted myself into a corner. I've always done things that didn't necessarily fit the form. I've never felt limited in that respect in terms of songwriting.

Artists should re-emphasize performance and de-emphasize recording. You always make more money if you have a healthy performing life than you will if you have even a moderately healthy recording life. Don't make recording the most important thing you do. Make performing the most important thing you do, and then you can make recordings and sell them at your shows, because record labels aren't going to be around to help you get on the radio stations, and the radio stations probably aren't going to play you anyway.

Make music a service that's easy to consume, and there'll be plenty of money for everyone.

There are still people who believe in that and wake up every day believing it's possible, and invest their whole selves in that.

I don't want to work, I want to bang on the drum all day.