Knowing now what goes into making a successful artist, it's disheartening.

I think that, to some degree, being irreverent is the only reason I continue to be successful.

I love watching reality TV, but being part of making it was just demoralizing.

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.

I think I managed to trick people a little bit into thinking I'm more arty by making creative, artistic, visual work and applying it to commercial music. Maybe. I don't know.

This is up there with anything that I've ever done. It's disheartening.