I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.

Things aren't black and white in the world.

Some fools in the desert with nothing to do...invented me, and they invented you. And other fools keep it all going and growing. Everybody, we're a figment of their imagination.

The belief in the '70s was that music was changing the world. I never believed that it had that great an effect. The effect Madonna had on fashion and sort of mores of young girls was a bigger deal than anything Dylan may have said, even.

It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.

Asia's crowded and Europe's too old, Africa is far too hot and Canada's too cold. And South America stole our name, let's drop the big one.

Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm writing well than anything else.