My biggest asset is not cash - it's a large, growing, devout fanbase.

I'm interested in creating a little sound world for songs, really crafting it, building it, and making it like a little doll's house with little things inside it, staircases and rooms and everything kind of relates to everything else. I've never seen it as drums, bass, guitar and vocals in very separate spaces.

When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write something down and get someone to play it, I could just type it into the computer and hear it back.

So many venues are owned by these various different ticketing and promoting people, and they're all in bed with one another. It's no secret over here.

There's a real contradiction that's difficult to explain to the West and the outside world about China and about the Internet.

Since Graham Bell came up with telephony, it took 100 years for the way the technology has impacted our lives, the way we perceive the world.

I realized that social media can be powerful force for good in the world and that acts of kindness can be scaled globally.

Let me make this very clear: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, our digital exhaust is being sucked up by the government. It is being compiled on big server farms and it's being analyzed by different computer programs, looking for any hint that you and I are up to no good.