My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.

I couldn't see passion as a bad thing.

The only thing I have to give to make you smile, to win you with, are all the mornings still to live.

My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s.

Musically, I don't think I'd ever dry up. I trust my musical invention.

If you see yourself as a kingly type, then you need your serfs and your army and so on around you.

Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980.