Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.
There is good and bad in everyone.
If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.
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.
I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame.