The means of control that record labels had vis-à-vis distribution no longer exist.

If you get on the radio, people hear it, they buy the record. If you get on Spotify playlist nowadays, people hear it, they buy the record.

Music and weed go well together, obviously.

I make music. It's kind of what I've always done.

I feel like weed is still taboo enough to be cool but not taboo enough that you have to totally hide it, which is like a pretty good place for an entity to be at.

I think most people now listen to different genres when they have different moods. I know I certainly do.

There are so few barriers to working with artists because the contract is brief and straightforward, it allows us to just move instantly.

I think if you can create a meaningful thing that is also an advertisement that's a pretty cool option for brands.

A song is a meaningful thing.

There's definitely something broken in the music industry clearly. Partly from downloading and partly the obstacles for discovery and listener choice and artist distribution are gone.

I just write songs, I make music, and I have several times over reinvented my life in order to keep making music and just make music all day. I don't know. It's just what I have to do.

How can something so wrong feel so right?

I've got a girl that I love so, hey Loddy Loddy Lo.

I went right from wunderkind to washed up. Old. Been around too long. That's just the way I feel. That's my internal dialogue.

But because human being tend to focus on short-term benefits and our own immediate needs, such tragedies of the commons occur frequently .

Life for my child is simple, and is good.

Our household is built on love and respect. And we don't really let negative vibes stay too long. It's worked out. I got a great family, great kids.

Is there a thinker apart from thought?

Well, it hurts my feelings because the person that I read about sometimes in these gossip magazines is not the person who I am. So I don't want, you know, my fans to think that's how I am.

'Taxi Driver' wasn't autobiographical in terms of the actual events, but I did draw on my own mental state.

If there wasn't no fight, there wasn't no weekend.