Well I was born to run, to get ahead of the rest. And all that I wanted was to be the best Just to feel free and be someone I was born to be fast, I was born to run .

I do feel a little embarrassed and ashamed that I was sort of saying, "Oh, yes, I used to do country music, but I didn't inhale." Which is not true at all. I inhaled the hell out of country music.

The only time I ever appeared in the Enquirer was for a piece about people who let their hair grow gray. I guess I’m not much of a wild child.

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.

Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.

Like falling stars from the universe we are hurled Down through the long loneliness of the world Until we behold the pain, become the pearl

Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.