Every woman I've had a relationship with has found this maddening; the fact that I will talk about anything on the stage, and reveal all this stuff, and yet when I'm at home, I clam up and won't discuss anything intimate or personal.

I guess I'm fairly insistent and maybe consistent. If I decide I'll do something, I generally will.

I'd been thinking I'd have to learn how to play really well, but obviously the message of punk was that you just learn three chords in a week and you're away.

I'm always amazed by people who blog all the time and tweet all the time, and still get things done. I don't know how they do it.

Don't think that the things around you don't count, because they do.

Well, once you've resigned yourself to the fact that you are the more mature pop performer and you're past the age you ever thought you would do it, you might as well do it as long as you can. As long as I can still lift a microphone, then I'll do it, you know.

I think that's what all art is for - for people to express what it is to be human. That's the purpose of it.