I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can.

The more hedonistic you were, the better...I very much subscribed to that as a young artist.

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 personally don’t have the ability to lie about my life, for better or for worse.

I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider.

I'm not a terrible smoker, actually. My major addiction, which is horrible, is straight boys.

But I don't even think you hear me at all Under your medieval ceiling behind your biblical wall