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I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.

Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.

It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.

I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.

If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

In this age when people expect to get their music for free, we have to work out how we can protect the rights of creative artists so they are compensated fairly and that the record business itself remains sound and healthy.

When you're an artist, you can only do your own stuff. Even if you only write for other people, you're really more focused on yourself. So while everybody's out touring, I'm working on records.

Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.