A lot of people come up to me expecting to meet the person they have seen perform. It's not going to happen, unless my mania, my stage person, responds to them and not the real me.

I don't care what people think of me, unless they think I'm mean or something, but I don't care if they think I'm like someone else because I know I'm not - I'm a total weirdo. I'm not selling a dream; I'm not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing. I'm just trying to sell music and get on with my real life.

If anyone besides famous people knew what it was like to be a famous person, they would never want to be famous.

Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it.

So where a lot of people will spend three weeks on one song, I will write 10 in three weeks. Maybe the song that they sculpt is going to be as successful as just one of the 10 that I wrote.

This, to me, has been the biggest quote-unquote mania that I've ever seen in my 27 years.