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

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.

Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.