Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.

The missing links in my life's work, no less!

The United States is a country where everybody can start again.

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

I looked at what adults were doing and how they wanted to earn money, and I really didn't want to do that. I wanted to go away.

I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology.

I was a latecomer to politics. Maybe I'm just very slow. I got to everything when everyone else had left.