Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal

Retire? I can't spell the word. I'd play in a wheelchair.

When you're supported by millions all over the world, you can either go nuts, or try to feed off the goodwill.

Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.

If you're cool, you don't know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain't.

The thing about being a songwriter, once you realize you are one, is that to provide ammo, you start to become an observer. ... You're constantly on the alert. That faculty gets trained in you over the years: observing people, how they react to one another, which in a way makes you weirdly distant. ... It's a little of Peeping Tom, being a song-writer.

Songwriting's a weird game.