If you perform on a stage or you sing a song, it's like you sing your song, and then the words go into the air, and then they go into somebody's body through their ears, so it's kind of like penetrating somebody. It's kind of like having sex with somebody - but, obviously, from a great distance.

I would rather kill myself than play my own music... I can't stand it when people do that.

One of the problems of our modern world is that there's a lot of things to work through, but, at some point, everybody should take a pause from that and make something, so that it's not just all one-way traffic.

Hollywood is called Hollywood, but holly doesn't grow there. Right from the start it's based on a lie. But it's a very seductive lie, and we're still entranced by it.

For me, the great thing about music is that anybody can do it.

Pornography takes all the reality out of sex and Disney does that to family life.

I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.