London's tempo is 122.86 beats per minute.

Real sadness is such an all-encompassing intense thing that it takes you out of your humdrum existence. If you can still function, you want to show it while it's peaking. So when people tell you to cheer up, it's not always the best thing.

I think that if they want people to listen to ten or twelve songs, they have to give the listener a reason to listen to ten or twelve songs or to buy ten or twelve and listen to the whole thing instead of just pulling one or two for their iPod or their computer.

I don't think people are going to switch over to bikes because it's good for them or because it's politically correct. They're going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster.

Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.

I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.

The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.