If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything, and then you'll have zero capitalism, zero competition - it would just be one giant company.

As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.

I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a back-and-forth process.

I think it's my interaction with journalists that has pegged me more as political than my actual records, although they have obviously political aspects to them as well.