You can change the world, but if no one's listening, it doesn't matter.

I did some writing. I was just taking the kids to school. I did a couple things and we did some tours. It was a lot of downtime.

If you have no shame, and it’s your goal to get people into bed, how much higher could your success rate possibly be?

Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower.

Berlin is just an affordable European city that's supposed to be cool. There's nothing too deep about it.

I was a kid, I loved music, that was our social thing. That's what we bonded on. That's what my Saturday nights were, looking to see what bands were playing. And some of those people were the coolest people ever. I want to participate in that. And I hope other people feel that and they're like, "Yeah man, this is part of it, this is why I love music."

It's just a compulsion to create something new and stay busy. I don't know how to do anything else. It was never exactly right. Those records came out in spite of their flaws. And because of their flaws they were good.