I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not something I've ever really quite done.

I wanted to be the reasonable voice of revenge for what I'd seen [my father] life come to.

I took a month long vacation in the stratosphere, and you know it's very hard to hold your breath.

A pop song is a condensed version of a life in three minutes, whereas, when you go to write your prose, you have to find the rhythm in your words, and you have to find the rhythm in the voice that you have found and the way you're speaking.

It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.

For me, President Obama is our best choice because he has a vision of the United States as a place where we are all in this together.

If you see me performing, you're going, that guy is simply the most extroverted guy I've ever seen. But if you've seen me very often on a daily basis and all the while growing up, I was very, very introverted. Very introverted. So I have sort of the extremes of both of those characteristics.