I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician.

If anyone asks for your autograph they're showing you respect and give it back to them.

I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.

My words are my bullets.

Music is escapism from the grim realities of life. But then as soon as you escape into the music, from my point of view, I found I had to deal with the very things that I thought I was running away from. I wanted to hit those problems on the head and resolve them. So they didn't remain as issues in my psyche.

U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs.

Love is what you feel for a dog or a pussycat. It doesn't apply to humans.