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Sometimes ideas are coming so fast that I have to stop doing one song to get another. But I don't forget the first one. If it works, it will always be there. It's like the truth: it will find you and lift you up. And if it ain't right, it will dissolve like sand on the beach.

It's fun being in Islamic countries, to know there's only one religion. There's order. You wear a burqa. There's no choice. People are happy with that.

I do pay performance royalties on others' songs I perform live, but I'm not recording these songs and putting them up for sale.

Just sharing music with each other - that's cool. It's the selling that becomes the problem.

The music, for me, doesn't come on a schedule. I don't know when it's going to come, and when it does, I want it out.

Young people have decided they like to listen to music in a certain way, through ear buds, and that's fine with me as long as it doesn't bother them that they're not hearing 90 percent of the music that way.

My bankers are very happy with me.

I'm not one to get bad reviews.

In the tech-savvy, real-time world we all live in today, everything is faster.

Most bands out there are basically pretty boring. I try to affect people inside their bodies.

All you see on television are debased images.

I might just stop talking again and not do interviews.

I don't see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won't pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can't get it.

You don't have to watch 'Gossip Girl' to have an attitude.

When it comes to the video channels and the programs, the radio stations, the music is geared towards kids, and it's made by kids.

Every year, they ask me to play the Grammys.

I have a lot of parties.

People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it's important to keep my private life private and my public persona more into music, you know?

A bootlegger is a bootlegger, a scalper is a scalper.

I pride myself on working with great musicians.

Well, my musicians are my friends.