You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I'm making more money.

I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good times, I'll take the bad times, I'll take you just the way you are.

I'm a piano player. I never thought of myself as a singer, at all. I was always trying to sound like somebody else. I don't like my own voice, I like Ray Charles, Robert Plant, I like Joe Cocker, Rod Stewart, people that have an edge in their voice.

Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.

There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.

I compare songwriting to childbirth. How many kids can you have before your uterus explodes?

If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.