I never get too many problems. You can never please everyone anyway, obviously. And some people take the easy route and just play the greatest hits, and their audience is happy to hear that as well, and that's fine, but it wouldn't please me. But it doesn't trouble me.

It's important to know all those things, but part of our jobs is to move people along and to make people excited to buy music or buy clothes, and give them enjoyment, I think, too.

I suppose it's nice to have some surprise in life and to surprise yourself in life and see what else you can do.

If you gave me a fresh carnation, I would only crush its tender petals.

I get bored quickly. I kind of take my hat off to bands who have been around for a long time and still do the same thing, because it's hard to keep a band together for decades. But I couldn't do that. I couldn't play the same songs night after night or just trade on my past glories, because it wouldn't interest me as a person.

Sometimes you're ahead of the game and sometimes people don't get it and that's just one of those things you have to accept and carry on.

You can't live a lie. You have to follow your heart.