The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film, forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.

The moral case for individual initiative in a free economy holds that people have a God-given right to use their creativity to produce things that improve our lives.

I never did anything worth doing by accident nor did any of my inventions come by accident, they came by work.

I would rather have been beaten up in the media than live a life that wasn't happy.

And ultimately the people who produce my records they know that they're here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process.