If we're so awful and we're so bad, you ought to check out the nightlife in Leningrad.

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.

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.

Follow your musical instincts. Do what you feel is right. Don't be relegated to a certain category.

I wanted to sing songs that my voice was comfortable with.

People don't care how you feel. You need to paint pictures, you need to tell stories. That's what people want. They want to be entertained. Then all of the other stuff kind of filters across as part of the whole thing.

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.