In some ways, when you re-envision a song like that ["Never Be Mine"], there's a completely different energy to it each night.

I saw Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, which I thought was a masterpiece. Not that long ago, I listened to Blackstar by David Bowie and thought that was a masterpiece. Those are two incredibly talented people who've left their mark with us.

We let the weirdness in.

Don't fall for a magic wand, we humans got it all, we perform the miracles.

You're never really happy. I'm certainly not. That's a good thing. It means you're always striving to do better. You hope the next piece will be better.

I don't think it's a very nice idea [making biopic] at all. I don't think my life is that interesting.

It wasn't that we were afraid of the Church or the Vatican. The record company thought people might find the title offensive. They asked me if I would change ["A Deal with God"].