The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.

Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.

You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.

There are tragedies that happen all the time in America, but there are certain types of tragedies that kind of pull us together and make us pause and give us a chance to reflect about where we are, where we're going, and that sort of thing.

When you have somebody like a Donald Trump - he made no bones about trying to disprove Barack Obama's Americanism in trying to make him out to be some foreigner that was born in Kenya. I thought that to be very racist.

When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.