If your wife went out with Brad Pitt, you'd want to prove yourself, you know what I mean?

Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?

Rihanna is mysterious and fascinating

I think when you're as talented as me or you, you don't need to have an ego. On a serious note, the people I most admire in the world in my field have never shown that much ego to me.

I think in life everyone needs to be broken in some way.

The word mystical is an even worse word than spirituality - that artists take drugs, and then they add some crazy extra thing to what we all know is real. But our job as artists or as human beings is to investigate what we really think is real.

You can never say you're big - I don't think you can ever take anything like that for granted.