It is the pursuit of happiness that brings us happiness, and not the happiness achieved.

Onstage, I don't feel any glory from people clapping in the audience, but when they're pushing me to do something new that feels good.

There have been three times. Once I got in a car accident and shattered my finger. A few years ago I didn't feel like being alive. That's all I can say.

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.

Our art is an adventure. It is a dream come true.

I hate irony, particularly when it is used because there isn't any message or to hide that someone hasn't any story to tell. Just like when someone only spews out a stack of cool words which don't mean anything and then has the gall to call it art. I always want to create a bridge between us and the listener, and I want it to be so that kids want to create for themselves a story or a context of the words.

There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.