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

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.

If you went crazy, would you know it?

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

There are people who are known for some contribution to pop culture, but that doesn't mean that you've survived solely on your relevance to whatever is currently popular. That's what a pop star is, in that sense. You might start out as a pop star, but that's just an opportunity to become more relevant, if you possibly can.

Kept his locker full of weed just to satisfy his smoking needs and his love of fire.

Love between the ugly, is the most beautiful love of all