Turning music into digital was just a con, a record-company con.

Nobody wants to make great albums now because nobody wants to buy them and there's no place to sell them.

Take 'Jack and Diane.' I was so disgusted with people thinking the line 'Hold on to sixteen as long as you can' meant to stay a teenager forever. What I meant was keep doing whatever makes you feel alive.

It's what you do and not what you say. If you're not part of the future, then get out of the way!

Some people say I'm obnoxious and lazy, that I'm uneducated, that my opinion means nothing, but I know I'm a real good dancer.

I'm not a nostalgic person. I'm not nostalgic about much of anything.

If fans are going to turn on me because of this, they weren't my fans anyway. I couldn't betray a whole 25 years of record making and not do this. I had to.