The easiest way to get laid by a girl, or get rid of her, is to write a song about her.

After all the time we [people] spent saying look, war is a stupid way to solve stuff - oh, you're not trying to solve stuff. You're trying to make money.

When did I decide to go into business? Well, it wasn't a business, when I decided. It was simply a need to sing.

All wars would end immediately if the various chiefs of state dropped a little LSD.

It's hard to bullshit the ocean. It's not listening, you know what I mean.

You tend to write as you get older about family love more than you write about romantic love or ooh baby. ... The stuff that you want to celebrate about humanity has always been there and probably always will be.

I love music. I love making songs. I feel like I've been given a path where I can contribute, where I can protest if somebody does something really obviously wrong or inhuman right in front of me, where I can make a difference. Where I can most especially elevate, make you happy, elevate the condition, elevate the thing.