I think I try to do a lot of things to weed out casual fans.

I think I have some very meaningful relationships with people; we all do. At the same time, I recognize that everyone is following their own heart; there's been people who have left my life, and I don't have a problem with that. This is a transitory world; we're all spirits just looking for love and finding it and holding on.

If it's possible to have an enemy without making it personal or moral, then that's what I'm trying to do.

I took piano lessons when I was a little kid, but even before that, you're singing in the classroom and wherever. Gosh, children are always singing. But I took music lessons, some choir and things like that at school. I learned how to play the guitar when I was about 13... ancient history.

I want to make something that's useful to someone, somewhere.

When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.

This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.