Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.

I think that plain old intellectualism [can be] a more powerful force than the idea of the femme fatale.

People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.

I'm not really interested in a ton of female musicians but there is something about Britney that compelled me - the way she sings and just the way she looks.

I pretend I'm not hurt, I walk about the world like I'm having fun.

Bad things happen everyday but you're not going to be any happier thinking about them. So I don't think about them.

It takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is.