If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

You gotta fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay.

I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

These are the days of the endless summer, these are the days, the time is now. There is no past, there's only future, there's only here, there's only now.

There's no difference between lyrics and poetry. Words are words. The only difference is the people who are in academic positions and call themselves poets and have an academic stance. They've got something to lose if they say it's all poetry; if there's not music to it, and you have to wear a certain kind of checkered shirt or something like that. It's all the same. Lyrics are lyrics, poetry is poetry, lyrics are poetry, and poetry is lyrics. They are interchangeable to me.

Shivers up and down my spine It's a feeling so divine Let me go back for a while Got to go back for a while To that magic time.

Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.