In the music business, to survive for so long, you have to be able to cut off from your emotions sometimes. And being a father, you're faced with that situation. I know that my father was, with me. I understand why he had to be distant, because to rip yourself away, time after time, is almost more devastating.

I've developed a bit of a fascination with John Denver. I always thought he was kind of tacky and somewhat revolting and had a kind of simplistic weirdness, but on second listen, he actually did have an incredible voice, and the blatant naiveté of his work is straight-edge, in a way.

I'm very fit on tour. I try to eat well, try to sleep. But it's still rock n' roll.

I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.

For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust.

Every video I do is over budget by the time I walk on set. I am massively extravagant in my personal habits.

Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.