It's really nice meeting people after a concert. Still, it's very weird to be at the center of a group of 30 people all listening to what you're saying. When that group turns into 300 people, it goes on from weird. Some people revel in it, and I don't.

True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?

You don't really know a song until you play it live.

There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.

I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.