When I read about myself and how writers have focused on negative stuff, it hurts my feelings.

It's this funny thing now: You sign up to be a musician because you want to write music, but you don't spend your time writing music. Instead, you go around the world selling the music you've already made.

When I read about myself and how writers have focused on negative stuff, it hurts my feelings.

[YSL creative director] Hedi [Slimane] is a music-obsessed guy. I might've originally met him through Sky.

If I play Coachella, it's sponsored by a company - that's corporate, too. But we're playing it because we're getting paid and we want to be a part of the festival.

In terms of being a kind of popular artist figure and knowing how isolating that is, and knowing what it feels like to be skeptical of people, and to be taken advantage of, especially by your friends. That's a hard to pill to swallow, and we've been through that together, or watched each other go through it. It helps to have somebody that close to you who can relate. I can say with some confidence that I feel like Sky saved my life.

I think that when people download the record they're kind of missing out on part of the experience, because it's really meant to be an immersive experience.