Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn't have before and perhaps write a song about something that I've written about before, but from a fresh viewpoint.

Mick Jagger can't even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group that ever was.

For you girl, there is not enough love in the world.

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.

Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools.

Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true.

Playing the drums hurts my back.