Whenever they say it can’t be done, remind them that they make a jellybean that tastes exactly like popcorn.

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

When you do an interview with me, you're talking to a cheap imitation of the person that I really am. There's no magic in my words, it's just me talking.

I remember playing the guitar through the amplifier facing out the window of my house onto the street in the summer time - that was social media in 1992.

Numb is the new deep, done with the old me, and talk is the same cheap it's been.

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 get recognized somewhere in between like local meteorologist and national meteorologist.