When I can really open myself up to someone and show someone who I really am, it's amazing when it happens.

In a perfect world, I would be 6-foot-3 and have a perfect head of hair and look like Orlando Bloom.

I'm pretty much a realist. There's a certain age you get to when you're not really going to be shown anymore.

That’s why I make music. When I listen to my favorite music made by other people, that’s what it does to me. So as a musician, I’m just trying to do the same thing with music I make. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. But when someone comes to me and says the music I’ve made has affected them emotionally, that’s the most gratifying part of my job.

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

Research performed on animals is, by definition, scientifically unsound.

There are a lot of public figures who, before they take a stand on a issue, they talk about it with their publicist and they figure out how it's going to affect record sales. Life is really too short to worry about that sort of thing.