Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this road.

You get older. You start having hopes for other people rather than yourself.

Everybody knows by now that there's a gazillion books on me either out or coming out in the near future. So I'm encouraging anybody who's ever met me, heard me or even seen me, to get in on the action and scribble their own book. You never know, somebody might have a great book in them.

The government's not going to create jobs. It doesn't have to. People have to create jobs.

You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right, now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself, you decide for yourself.

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

I've always been the kind of person that doesn't like to trespass, but sometimes you just find yourself over the line.