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I was a scam artist in high school for a while.

It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.

I always saw myself as a multi media artist.

I don't feel that as an artist my job is to offer PR propaganda, whether for the good or for the bad.

People are like, 'Wow you started your own record label,' and treat me like I'm some sort of innovative genius, when I'm not at all. You've got the Internet and music - you put them together, and people hear your music.

I was in a profession that received a lot of media.

The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.

I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.

I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

You can't fool yourself anymore that your art is your art. When you're not getting paid for that song that's being traded back and forth among millions of people on the Internet, you have to think like a businessperson.