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I made my first complete song when I was 9.

If I would have listened, if I would have understood diabetes like I understood music, maybe these things wouldn’t have happened.

Records have images. There are wet records and dry records. And big records.

That’s when we was makin this video stuff. They went all over the place makin it. And they was wantin to know, at the college, how I got started playin and how do I do everything – you know, all that.

The Beatles will exist without us.

The music industry is saying, This is the format, and if you’ll fit into this format, you can be on radio, and if radio will play you, MTV will expose you, and MTV will expose you, we’ll sell records.

But what you realise after you’ve been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don’t have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

I’m very pro presenting the best music I can to the widest audience possible.

Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That’s why I do what I do.