I've always said, rather glibly, that the message of my career has been about individualism, about getting to know yourself and taking responsibility, not just for what you do, but what you think.

People who have memorized your songs-how can you not love them?

There must be a God because he made me.

I suppose people also have to be a little more careful or circumspect if they're going to leverage their celebrity to promote their political aims. The problem is that politics is about the accretion of power, and it's very difficult not to get giddy with power.

I don't want to work, I want to bang on the drum all day.

It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the same life that everybody else is living what's the point?

Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character.