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 don't ever try to make a serious social comment.

I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.

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.

When a war is over I think it's a cowardly thing to leave the war behind you in minefields that hit women and children and the most vulnerable. Imagine the war is finished and you go to work and there are snipers shooting at you. Imagine taking your kids to the beach and you find that the beach is blowing up beneath you. Like there's nowhere safe.

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

People would say to me, “Hey man, you look just like Paul McCartney”, and I'd say: “I wish I had his money!”