If you have the choice between humble and cocky, go with cocky. There's always time to be humble later, once you've been proven horrendously, irrevocably wrong.

There is a difference between who is important and who is significant.

I suffer from the curse of being multi-talented. There's no doubt about it. Politics and literature have gotten in the way of songwriting.

These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable.

I'll keep us out of war with Oklahoma!

Well, I hate to be the one to take the flyswatter to Tinker Bell, but...

The only currency I value is the coin of the spirit. That's very important in my life.