I don't have a wife, I don't have any kids, I don't have any addictions that keep me drooling on the couch, and I'm kind of target oriented.

If it's a man's world, as they say, then men, your world is a poorly run carnage fest.

One of the nice things about a favorite pop song is that it's an unconditional truce on judgment and musical snobbery. You like the song because you just do, and there need not be any further criticism.

When people make my country look bad, I can't stand it.

I don't need music for the good times. I don't have that kind of need. Music doesn't serve me like that.

As far as what people think of me, maybe my stuff should just be put online for free downloads when I'm gone.

Travelling as extensively as I do... the take away for me has made me very humble and very sympathetic to other people's plight in the world and very desirous of being proactive in being part of a solution somehow and not part of a problem. It's made me very patient and very grateful for where I live.