There's this whole idea that you've got the blues and you're going to write. Bullshit. When I feel really bad, all I want to do is sit in front of the TV with the remote control and check out.

Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.

I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly.

I didn't grow up in a mom-and-pop, Ozzie and Harriet type of environment, but who did.

I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.

Sometimes I feel like I just open myself up like I'm a vehicle for something coming through me. It's like a meditative state I have to be in.