I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.

Somebody should clip Sting around the head and tell him to stop using that ridiculous Jamaican accent.

Was it a millionaire who said, "Imagine no possessions"?

For all the courage that we never had, I'm just about glad.

Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.

Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction.

I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a wider audience, because it communicates in that very direct way.