In art, as in life, the simplest solutions are often the most profound.
I don't make music for the critics, I make it for the fans.
Here's an insight that I've had about success: You can't be successful at everything. We hear a lot of talk about work-life balance. Nonsense. You can't have it all. You can't. So any vision of success has to admit what it's losing out on, where the element of loss is. And I think any wise life will accept, as I say, that there is going to be an element where we're not succeeding.
Music makes one feel so romantic—at least it always gets on one’s nerves, which is the same thing nowadays.