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Selling another 10 million albums is not a priority. Putting out something you're proud of is.

When I started playing music, people weren't selling 5 million records. That was not the standard; that was not the focus.

The record business has always mystified me. Sometimes there are reasons why things sell or don't sell that can't be understood by mere mortals.

And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.

There are a lot of musicians who are still desperately trying to pretend that it's 1998 and by having a huge marketing campaign, they somehow believe that they can sell 10 million records. That's delusional. No one sells 10 million records. The days of musicians getting rich off of selling records are done.

Selling millions of records is great, but at the end of the day it really doesn't bring peace.

But when our first album came out, I didn't think it was going to sell a lot of records.

I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad.

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.