I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll play a few gigs and then disappear for a while.

The last time I twerked I was with @katyperry. She was rather good at it!

Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away.

If there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles.

It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

One of things about beards is that, when men reach a certain age, they'd like to see if they can grow one. It's a phenomenon I understand very well. After you get over the itchy face, you go, "Oh, I don't have to shave, that's cool." And then you move into the philosophical thing- people say, "You look weird, you have a beard." And you say, "No, actually, it's weird to shave." Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.