I have to say, I'm good with gifts. If I find something perfect for a certain person, I'll just get it and put it away in a kind of nook under my bed - a little gift hutch, if you prefer.

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

If you're in a bar and a certain song comes on and the vibe is just different, it evokes the kinds of things that you want to feel, and if music can do that it's a very special thing.

Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!

The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.

The way Lou Reed wrote and sang about drugs and sex, about the people around him - it was so matter-of-fact.

Don't you dare get to the top and not know what to do.