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.

That's the jazz that I like - the stuff that has a soothing effect.

[Jean-Paul] Sartre was a throwback to the existential period. I'm not really so much into that these days. I went through a period of going over things and looking at them again to see what they were. But I'm into psychiatry type things. I'm into philosophy. I'm into that sort of thing.

I also like to do physical things. I like swimming a lot. I like traveling. Not touring traveling but just plain traveling. I also read a lot. Reading takes up most of my time.

I never, ever said that I was a nice guy.

I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

If you live the life you love, you get the blessing from above.