Who would want to break into [the music business]? It's like a bank that's already been robbed.

To get nominated by the Republican Party you've got to be pretty reactionary, really.

He got drunk last night, kicked Mama down the stairs. But I'm alright, so I don't care.

Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.

I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.

I've often written about places that are totally different from anything I know. Sometimes they turn out better.