L.A.'s kind of, like, seven really cool towns. It's so laid-back. If you go in the right spot, you can walk around, and you don't need a car.

People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn't like that.

Forgive them even if they are not sorry

Pretty much the only goal I've had since the beginning, which I still have, is just to get better, work hard, focus, and everything else will just be a bonus. As long as I'm satisfied, and I think we're getting better with every song compared to the last, then I'm satisfied and that's all I want. If we don't achieve that, then I'll be disappointed.

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

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.

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