Better a loving single-parent family than a 'conventional' family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.

I like tea and yoga, but I don't do yoga.

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

The most emotional part is when I go into my studio every day and pretty much never have an idea of what's gonna happen.

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

I've worked with all sorts of random people - everybody from Metallica to Britney Spears to Ozzy Osbourne to Michael Jackson to the Beastie Boys. I've got a really strange CV. It's interesting - I work with a lot of these disparate, different people to learn what it's like to work with random people.

The moment somebody becomes famous, 15 years gets knocked off their life. They're gonna get divorced a few times, they're gonna be addicted to things, they're gonna be in therapy.