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.

The simple man, baby, pays for the thrills, the bills, and the pills that kill.

What we do to each other are the worst things that we do.

Now I do have a choice, and I'm not going to do anything I don't want to do.

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

This is serious business, sex, violence, and rock and roll.

We could walk 3 minutes and be on the beach. I think the music kind of suffered because of it. It kind of smelled like Jimmy Buffett, which is a bad thing.