Songwriting ability is a gift. After a while, you come to realize, "I've really been blessed. I can write these things and it makes me happy, and it makes millions of people happy." It's an obligation, it's bigger than you. It's the only true magic I know. It's not pulling a rabbit out of a hat; it's real. It's your soul floating out to theirs.

I'm more interested in what I'm going to leave behind me than in making a big hit record. I've refined what I do for a long time. If getting better at it means it goes over the heads of those who only wanted to party, then so be it.

Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing.

Even the losers get lucky sometimes!

When you kill somebody's little sister with a missile, he's going to hate you forever. And the next generation will hate you even more.

I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.

I can't crawl any further. You never crawled for me.