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I think everyone should feel like they can make music, they can create music.

I think music will thrive where it wants to.

I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that is true to yourself as opposed to doing, you know, just going through the motions and making things that would just be commercially successful.

There are musicians who want to make a living making music. There are listeners who want to listen to music. Complicating this relationship is a whole bunch of history: some of the music I want to listen to was made a while ago in a different economy. Some of the models of making a living making music are no longer valid but persist.

The tricky thing is music is supposed to be very mysterious; the way it's made is mysterious. Then people like to get upset with the music business.

When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hang-ups.

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

I think that people will always want music; I think that the form that they will get it in, or distributed to them from, and the price they pay for it is what's up in question.

The truth is I want to make music that people enjoy.