I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.

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've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.

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

I am not in 'Us Weekly.' I'd have to be going out with someone who is in there to be in there myself.

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.