In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

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

If I could have any job in the world, I'd start out by writing a blog on Wired.com.

The purpose of music is to elevate the spirit and inspire. Not to help push some product down your throat. It puts you in tune with your own existence. Sometimes you really don't know how you feel, but really good music can define how you feel... someone who's telling me where he's been that I haven't and what it's like there - somebody whose life I can feel.

Why Nicolas Sarkozy is the head of France, [he is] warm and extremely likeable.

I'm inconsistent, even to myself.

Fame it's like... When you look through a window, say you pass a little pub, or an inn. You look through the window and you see people talking and carrying on. You,can watch outside the window and see them all being very real with each other. But when you walk into the room, it's over. I don't pay any attention to it.