Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.

If they won't come to worship God in a church, something must be done. We have to instigate a nationwide search for a way to make it fun.

Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.

When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!

Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it.

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

My record producer [David Kahne] said the major record labels these days are like dinosaurs sitting around discussing the asteroid. They know it's going to hit. They don't know when, they don't know where it's coming from. But it's sort of hit already. With iTunes, and all of that.