I'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student.

My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.

I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.

Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith, reason over might. To blow up his children would only prove him right.

I think the labyrinth is an interesting metaphor for our lives as musicians. We're always being drawn toward the center of it because that's where the mystery is. What is music? It's a journey.

I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.

I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.