Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.

The materials choose the artist as much as the artist chooses them.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I've been working nonstop since I was 15. I don't even know how to chill out.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.