Being capable of anything is a bullshit concept, unless it means you also admit that you're capable of cheating, lying and killing.

I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.

The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn't happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.

Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it's not.

Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.

I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they're working. The songs just don't become a part of the film. They're replaced.

If I'm in a relationship and my girlfriend is sleeping with other people, I don't need to know who it is; I just want to know how she feels about it.