I do not believe Tony Blair was a fundamentally good man who went bad. I believe he was evil in the first place.

I really believe that if I make records that are indispensable to my audience, they'll go out and spend money to buy them, even if they've already downloaded them. If they can afford it. If they can't, I'd rather they be able to download it than not get it at all.

I'm one of the few people that I know that sings better than they did 20 years ago.

I don't spend a lot of time feeling sorry for myself, trying to compare how many records I've sold or how much money I've made.

I make an embarrassing amount of money for a borderline Marxist, just by selling 100,000 records. I don't sell millions of records, and I don't need to.

Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.

My audience doesn't agree with me on everything, but I love my audience, because they're totally okay with us having a dialogue.