I'm the weirdo. There have been multitudes of times in my career where I could have taken an easier road or a more commercial path, and I've been just like, that's not gonna make me happy.
Musicians playing together, it's a conversation, and ideally I want our conversation to be really intriguing and interesting and beautiful.
I'd like to think that, at the end of the day, you can look at the things that I made as a young person and the things I'll continue to make as I get older and they'll be consistently interesting and soulful things, and if you like them they'll be a ...
I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything's turning into one big commercial.
No matter what, I'm always interested in making music.
Since the early Nineties it's been very fashionable to say, 'It's all about the music.'
My music is how I feel, and that's changed from being twenty years old to being forty-three years old.
Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something - I don't do that.
The way we're going about things and what we want to do, we feel it has to be a really pure essence of music. That's where you get the most out of it.
There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic.
