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

I don't think rock n' roll songwriters should worry about art. I don't think it comes into it...as far as I'm concerned, Art is just short for Arthur.

Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.

This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.

But I'm not here just to make records and money. I'm here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: "Do you know this feeling?