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I am such a music fiend. I go after so many different types of music. I'm on iTunes constantly just buying new music!

Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.

I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.

With Spotify, I think people are discovering a lot of artists they might not discover otherwise.

As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the walls. The protracted labor of amassing a personal music library has lost its detective zeal.

When you look at anyone's iPod or iPhone and their music collection on there, it's not the same 10 songs. People like diversity.

Look, I was only given a year or two to come up with tunes for this record, and when all but eight of them were thrown out for riotous behaviour, I got a bit ticked off; wouldn't you?

To think that when they come out with these gigantic songs, it's pretty tough to top them, you know.

iTunes kind of feels like Sam Goody to me. I don't feel cool when I go there. I'm tired of seeing John Mayer's face pop up.

Mixtapes are always small scale to me - they never get taken seriously, and they're always short-lived.