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

The cultural mix that's happened in the United States is wonderful! Funny enough, one of the most wonderful things about it is that there is no American race.

I do think there are deep structural things that are wrong in the world.

People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.

I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar

Drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble.

I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song.