A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music.

I've dated attractive people and I don't find a correlation between amorous enthusiasm and beauty and public figure status.

So man's insanity is heaven's sense, and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.

I walk out my front door in New York and I'm out on the street and there are people everywhere. L.A. is so much more spread out, so it's really easy in L.A. to have a little more isolation and to just not see as many people.

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.

If I was a sex symbol, I would be getting laid a lot more than I am now.

Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach.