I just hope that I'll stay around musically for as long as I can. I love to think that I will still be satisfying myself and other people as a musician until the day I die.

I think I've gotten everything I want out of the last years, and I still feel like I have a lot of options open to me.

It was like I had a curse on me. I couldn't believe how much God was piling on. There was so much death around me.

My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion - 24 hours a day for years.

This was absolutely an attack on [British Prime Minister] Tony Blair, principally, and the perspective which is really predominant in Europe right now that he's not questioning enough of Mr. Bush's policies.

I had a very important personal point to make with this song [I Want Your Sex]. I just hated the idea that lust and forbidden excitement could only come with sleaze and strangers.

I'm a perfectionist. It's a big pain in the ass and it takes a lot of my time, but it really is going well and I have to do my own things.