I've done the performing monkey stuff and massive breakdowns, it's just they weren't documented.

Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business.

There are a lot of great animal rights organizations who save dogs and save cats, but the Humane Society is actually really good at working with Congress and getting legislation actually passed.

When I saw music as a means to an end - more fame, more money, dating celebrities - that's when things have gone terribly wrong. Now my life is focused on just trying to keep making music. Because when it's really good, it's just the most remarkable feeling on the planet.

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.

Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book.

I don't have children, but I imagine if parents are really pushed on the subject, they probably have favorite children.