The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.

I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he's not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he's completely that way.

As a young concert-going person, I was never enamoured with celebrities who would walk out to feature in certain songs and then walk off.

Books are like my one and only joy.

Listen, you know this: If there's not a rebellious youth culture, there's no culture at all. It's absolutely essential. It is the future. This is what we're supposed to do as a species, is advance ideas.

What do you have to do to get people to take an interest? I'm not going to go out and cause a silly sex scandal just to sell a record!

It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.