The Internet has changed everything. People will be discovered online. People buy music online. It's a completely different way to get entertainment.

Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.

If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.

It's a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that all the record companies combined used to put out around 3,000 albums in a year. Now they put out something like 30,000!

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.

Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn't even doing the singing. I'm a bit cynical about this [music] business.

You can't just have a clean public space - you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.