You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.

The devaluation of music and what it's now deemed to be worth is laughable to me. My single costs 99 cents. That's what a single cost in 1960. On my phone, I can get an app for 99 cents that makes fart noises - the same price as the thing I create and speak to the world with. Some would say the fart app is more important. It's an awkward time. Creative brains are being sorely mistreated.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.

I've always been the high harmony singer. It's never my job to know the verses! But I know the chorus of every song ever made.

It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.

When you ask a songwriter, "What's your favorite song?" he goes, "The next one."