I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed, and you're going to hear it in the music.

It’s more important for me to have a good record with good music and be part of a movie that’s good and where the music is used in a really great way. That’s the important thing. The other stuff you want to say about it, I don’t care.

Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that’s interesting.

I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen. You get into the cadence in your mind, and it’s hard to make the kind of left turn that you probably need to keep it really interesting.

I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I’m really working on him about that.

At a major label you can start to feel that you’re working for them, and that any work you do, you’re never going to see any benefit.

Say you were split, you were split in fragments and none of the pieces would talk to you. Wouldn’t you want to be who you had been? Well, maybe I’d want that too.

I don’t envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.

There comes a time when you swim or sink so I jumped in the drink ’cause I couldn’t make myself clear. Maybe I wrote in invisible ink, oh I’ve tried to think how I could’ve made it appear.

If you’re an artist trying to put out your own record on your own label, it’s hard to get a distribution deal because no one wants to sign a deal with one entity. They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.