Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980.

Let light hearts remake us.

I can't remember anything I ever wrote.

They used to laugh at me when I refused to ride on all those double decker buses, all because there was no driver on the top.

I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later.

The Blue album, there’s hardly a dishonest note in the vocals. At that period of my life, I had no personal defenses. I felt like a cellophane wrapper on a pack of cigarettes. I felt like I had absolutely no secrets from the world and I couldn’t pretend in my life to be strong. Or to be happy. But the advantage of it in the music was that there were no defenses there, either.

All I really, really want our love to do is to bring out the best in me and in you too.