People who have memorized your songs-how can you not love them?

It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the same life that everybody else is living what's the point?

So I don't think I'm gonna pull my head into my shell just because a bunch of people start acting like idiots.

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 prefer hallucinations cause they tend to make more sense than experience.

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.