I've got that resilient thing inside me. But I wasn't a happy bunny.

I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen, but as musicians I think we've got to step up and say 'come on'.

I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately.

When I say I don't have to write pop songs anymore, there's no way I'm going to get on the radio at 60 years of age unless I'm doing a duet with [Lady] Gaga or I was on All of the Lights, which was a Kanye West record that managed to get on the radio.

Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays. From my point of view, I would ban religion completely. Organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into really hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.

I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano.

Don't show up around here until your social worker's helped.