Once you say something, it stays said. I apologized to anyone who may have been hurt by what I said, and I really meant it. I am absolutely not interested in hurting anyone, or being mean or insensitive.

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to talk about music, it's all marketing, and that's part of a record, you gotta get it out there, people have gotta hear it, but you could do it in a way that's not repulsive.

I used to sit on the roof of the apartment where Jim Morrison used to write his early lyrics

This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky.

There is no place in the world like Australia. Not even its beautiful neighbor New Zealand.

I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran.