Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

the relentless touring and endless repetition of the same songs over and over again promoted a creeping awareness that my music had begun to sound like my washing machine.

I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.

I think that Frank Sinatra was maybe the greatest pop singer.

The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.

Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.

I get on the airplane and there's a screen in front of everything. You get into a taxicab in New York, there's a screen blinking at you. I think it's going to have a tremendous effect on our brains, because those bright, saturated colors and those strong lines, they do things to your brain.