We set out to become a band for our time. But sometimes if you do a good-enough job, you become a band for all time.

Money was a much saner goal than adoration. They'll both drive you crazy but if I'm going to blow my brains out for five years, I want something to show for it.

I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad.

I've read somewhere that when you're writing, you should stop while you're doing well so you always want to go back to work.

I really think one of the greatest allies you can have is the imagination of your audience.

There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.

I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.