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I don't want anyone to fail, so if you can make money off music even though you can't sing or dance, that's genius.

I always wanted to make a three-record set. 'Sign o' the Times' was originally supposed to be a triple album, but it ended up as a double.

I'm a fighter. I'm very competitive.

My father left his piano at the house when he left, and I wasn't allowed to play it when he was there because I wasn't as good as him. So when he left, I was determined to get as good as him, and I taught myself how to play music, and I just stuck with it, and I did it all the time.

There are no great jazz-fusion bands.

It's work to play the same songs the same way for 70 shows.

You don't need a record company to turn you into anything.

I pushed the envelope as far as it needed to be pushed, and now it's on the floor, and people seem to want it to stay there.

I ain't mad at anybody. I don't have any enemies.

I used to have seizures when I was young. My mother and father didn't know what to do or how to handle it but they did the best they could with what little they had.

Any business situation is restrictive.

Doing a residency in any particular city requires a large repertoire to ensure repeat business.

When I started playing music, people weren't selling 5 million records. That was not the standard; that was not the focus.

I think you'll always be able to do what your ear tells you.

There are people who are unhappy with everything.

I don't know who was the one that came up with the notion that you have to play the same songs every concert.

People don't understand real musicians anymore. Jack White is great - he's the real thing - but he isn't having hits.

I'm not entangled in a bunch of lawsuits and a web that I can't get out of. I can hold my head up... a happily married man who has his head in order. There isn't a bunch of scandal in my life.

I have friends that are gay, and we study the Bible together.

I used to be more involved with every aspect of everything onstage. I'm way more relaxed now. It feels like anything can happen.

We have to show support for artists who are trying to own things for themselves.