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.

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

But I want to deepen as an artist, and working with Shakespeare definitely points in that direction.

I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all the time, for better or for worse.

I think we could all be a bit more elitist.

These are just the rules and regulations Of the birds, and the bees The earth, and the trees, Not to mention the gods, not to mention the gods.

One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family, that struggle exists.