One can only snort so many ants and have so much sex before one starts to long for the comfort and companionship of a good book.

I like to quote Homer Simpson: 'I'm like a chocoholic except for alcohol.' I come from a long line of alcoholics. It's funny because when I first started making records, I was at the tail end of a period of sobriety, so I somehow got this reputation as Captain Sober.

Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience.

I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor.

Britney [Spears]'s actually kind of like a broken-down shell of a human being, that's what makes her so endearing and compelling.

If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough.

How wondrous familiar is a fool!