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I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality.

Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died.

Musicians burn through more cash than the Federal Reserve.

For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.

I'm just saying the producers and people who work on music are getting left out - that's when it starts getting criminal. It's like you're working hard, and you're not receiving. In any other business, people would be standing before Congress. They have antitrust laws against this kind of behavior.

The business has changed so much that they're able - we're able these days in the music industry to be able to control our own destiny.

There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.

I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.

We asserted ourselves as a music community, and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide and pay taxes.