You need a little resistance-something to fight against.

I probably could have a hip-hop-style entourage of 40 people coming with me to the club or whatever, and I don't do that. And I think sometimes maybe I should. It just makes things easier - if you don't like being by yourself, maybe just don't do it ever.

I'm one of those people that you have to keep your eye on or I'll wander off into the woods and forget to come back.

I think I've been a good boy long enough and given everyone around me a fair piece of the pie as far as all of the fleeting glory and reward that comes from the heavens - or the music press, whatever you want to call it.

When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.

The most exciting rock 'n' roll band of the last 50 years who are still on the road today

I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want things so much that we sabotage them.