I think as consumers Europeans are a lot more artist loyal irrespective of the genre of music or the type of project or the collaborative effort, and Americans are more media-loyal, because they need to be fed that media to know what's going on, because we're so inundated with promotion and marketing and everything that's going on - advertising.

The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.

People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

I'm a huge Beatles fan, but I've only really gotten into them as an adult.

I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.

I've got my own studio, and I've got four- to five-hundred unreleased tracks. I've got stuff that's electronic, orchestral, jazz, I've got rock, I've got metal, you know, I don't have polka.