You make a choice in your life, and it affects your life in all the ways, good and bad.

Very few things in life are worthy of the kind of emotional distress we put ourselves through.

And i start sleeping and dreaming and i think i'll dream about you, all through the night.

There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?

So scared of getting older, I'm only good at being young.

The tweets are getting shorter, but the songs are still 4 minutes long. You're coming up with 140-character zingers, and the song is still 4 minutes long…I realized about a year ago that I couldn't have a complete thought anymore. And I was a tweetaholic. I had four million twitter followers, and I was always writing on it. And I stopped using twitter as an outlet and I started using twitter as the instrument to riff on, and it started to make my mind smaller and smaller and smaller. And I couldn't write a song.

I quit the media game. I'm out. I'm done.