I love to go on stage and sing.

Trying to write music, be in a band and keep it all happening is one of the hardest, morale-destroying, heartbreaking things you will ever try to do - and that's when it's going well.

If you're crazy enough to put your hat into the ring of speculation and punditry, you're going to get some turbulence. But if it's coming from some journalist with a comfortable degree of body fat, I'm not losing any sleep over it.

I like people. Rightwingers don't. They like business, they don't care about people. I like education, they seem not to care much about it.

America was cool with Saddam Hussein when he was killing Iranians.

Girls aren't beautiful, they're pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know they have lost something and picked up something else.

If I hear, 'Be afraid of Tehran,' I'm like, 'I'd better go to Tehran.'