Got seven women on my mind. Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me, and one says she's a friend of mine.

Self-discovery in songwriting, bringing something forth that's instructive to yourself - some of the best songs that you will ever write are the ones where you didn't have to think about any of that stuff, but nonetheless that's what's happening in the song.

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

It's not like I'm looking to describe something that's only true of my own circumstances. It's beyond. It's way inside, you know. It's reaching inside to something that you have in common with many.

As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.

Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.