No one wants to be hated, in public, by lots of people.

Music can always serve a role in people's lives when it's emotional and warm and inviting and beautiful.

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.

I've been making music for thirty-six years and, you know, I'm still just as in love with working on music now as I was thirty-six years ago.

This isn't like naming your dog Spot.

It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences.

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