I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

I can't think of anything until I've got printed words in front of me. I never wake up in the middle of the night with a song in my head.

You know, no one should be marginalized in society when it comes to health. And, you know, we have - as a foundation, we have tried to champion those people [sex workers, needle users, intravenous drug users, prostitutes] and be by - be by their side and say, listen, these people cannot be forgotten. If you forget about them, then the disease is never going to go away.

Better to build a bridge than a wall.

That's just a part of being an artist: you can't write great stuff all the time, because if you did, then you'd be inhuman. The human side of people is that sometimes they fail.

I've got to do something to make up for all those self-absorbed and selfish years when I just, you know, was taking drugs, sitting in my room, doing bad things, whatever.

I want a love that don't mean a thing.