It's nice to collect stamps, but if it becomes obsessive, and you start stealing for your stamps, it becomes too much.

For some people it's real therapy to talk to journalists about their private lives and inner thoughts. But I would rather keep something to myself.

I see songwriting as having to do with experience, and the more you've experienced, the better it is. But it has to be tempered, and you just must let your imagination run.

I have to get up the fitness level, sing a lot, practice, get in the mood, and generally do lots of rehearsal. Get your body and mind ready.

Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.

The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.

I love America, but I can't spend the whole year here. I can't afford the taxes.