"I came up in a time when Springsteen, the Stones, Dylan, and the Beatles were still dominant. For every magazine cover with a new band, there were five covers with one of those guys."

"No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist."

"Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way."

"I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem."

"I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me."

"I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years."

"I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out."

"I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back."

"I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by."

"In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs."

"In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means."

"In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments."

"The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is."

"Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays."

"You can't meditate on walking or certain human habits. You concentrate too much on the way you walk, and you'll start walking pretty weird."

"I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation."

"Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone's going to want to listen to that, but it should exist."

"Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig."

"I have heard some stuff that might be influenced by my records, but it's usually pretty wacky and off-the-wall, which is kind of annoying, to be frank."

"There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts."

"I feel like I've spent the majority of my time touring and traveling, so if I reduced the actual time making music, it's probably four and a half years at the most."

"I didn't want to be on a major label. I wanted all the attention and the noise to go away because I wanted to be something a little bit more substantial."

"There's never any pressure on the music having to be something."

"When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant."