I meet so many people that just sort of say, "I want to thank you for your music. It really helped me" or "It changed my life."

When you get the money, you still need to keep going; you don't stop. There has to be something else. I think it's the freedom to do what you want and to live your dreams.

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!

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.

I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.