My main interest is just to work with people who have beautiful, interesting, emotive voices; I'm not too concerned whether someone is famous.

Shaving your head is acceptable. It's when you start wearing toupees and brushing your hair over that things go wrong.

I know, in my heart of hearts, I don't do things for money.

I will be very sad when global warming and toxins kill off all the toads and frogs and salamanders. Here's hoping we, as humans, figure out a way to be less stupid.

In the past I've had public feuds with people, and I have really not benefited from any of them. The feud with Eminem did kind of torpedo my career in the United States, but it also introduced me to Middle America in a way I never could have conceived of.

I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult.

I used to have a lot of envy for those musicians who have been universally loved.