Polarization affects families and groups of friends. Its a paralyzing situation. A civil war of opinion.

I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.

Iraq has lost 5 percent of its population, a number that in the U.S. would equal 14 million people.

People get very thoughtful when they are in cars. I no longer care for cars. I don't collect them.

The terrible attack in Manhattan has given place to a burst of patriotism in the United States.

I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.

Any performer is one person privately and then he's another person when he steps on the stage.

Something that you can't play in your kitchen is rap. It is done in your neighbour's kitchen.

People have different personalities when they're drunk or take heroin, or whatever drugs.

I don't spend money on anything. I don't collect anything. I don't spend it on furniture.

I don't believe in original melodies. There are only so many computations of eight notes.

As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over.

You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant

We have recorded songs on the same day that were released years later in other albums.

Drug use makes you snappy, and you get very bad-tempered and have terrible hangovers.

I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.

People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.

In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.

If you're the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.