I've had terrible, terrible, terrible shows where I just thought, "That was off-key" or I forgot lines or I thought I looked like an idiot, and then you're leaving and talking to people, and they're like, "I had the best time of my life! That was amazing!" You just never know.

The feeling of being halfway through a show and just realizing that there's nothing you can do to save it - it's a horrible feeling.

The cynicism doesn't come across in the final; it can be taken as a very sincere plea for someone to not go away.

You have to be a really talented writer if you're trying to encapsulate a news story with a song and have it live after the event. I don't have the focus to do that, really.

If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and keep turning things into something else.

There are people who kind of let you know that you can silence the room.

Hearing that [David] Bowie passed was like you don't really believe it. It's as if the sky shifted a little bit, to remind you it was there.