What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.

There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.

I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.

Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.

What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution - this revolution - is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.