Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind.

I have masturbated myself out of serious problems in my life.

[on Jessica Simpson] Yeah, that girl is like crack cocaine to me. Sexually it was crazy. That's all I'll say. It was like napalm, sexual napalm.

By the way, pornography? It's a new synaptic pathway. You wake up in the morning, open a thumbnail page, and it leads to a Pandora's box of visuals. There have probably been days when I saw 300 vaginas before I got out of bed.

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

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

I've always said I've got the coolest fans, and I brag about you like grandchildren when I talk to other artists.