I expect people to at least use some thought.

I expect people to at least use some thought.

I've never been to a Hollywood party, although I imagine that it might be fun.

You know, when you're 23 and you get pissed, I mean drunk, you can just go crazy and it's all right. But if you're 43 and you do it, it's like your best friend's mother who used to come in pissed and everybody was really embarrassed. It just doesn't go down well, you know, after a certain age.

In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.

Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line.

Songwriting is like working on a jigsaw puzzle, and it doesn't make any sense until you find that last piece. It has to make sense or it doesn't work.