I'm a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.

I'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?

Everything I do is 100% automation, which means I'm just doing it live.

What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?

When I go on a nostalgia trip it's not aesthetic. For me it's about trying to recapture the smell or the feeling of something that I've experienced in the past personally.

I don't know if I have any real aspirations to be an actor. It was just something I was asked to do in sort of a friend way. And I thought, Why not?

I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.

When young groups put out albums, they're always forced to go through this cycle of touring and talking and flaunting and posturing and peacocking. Nobody makes me do that anymore.

The Internet nowadays is all sensationalism, and it's just terrifying when you're actually experiencing it as a person.

I don't think you should make music to make music, just to show that you can. That's the opposite of vitality.

I'm obsessed with five different things a day. It's like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.

Voter apathy was, and will remain the greatest threat to democracy.

Malcolm Gladwell can’t help being a pinhead. He was probably born that way.

This is a sleaze bag murdering dog and he [O.J. Simpson] has played us for fools. And the worst thing he did was exacerbate the racial divide in this country. He divided black and white America.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life!

1. Don't be boring. 2. Be able to pass the airport test; be interesting enough to carry on a 3 hour conversation with a stranger. 3. When in doubt, do what you can never do again.

Now a small woman, with dangerous curves. I could bite into her.

It's a shame the Manchester United situation turned sour.

After a foreign invasion, there has to be a sort of feeling of musical inadequacy in the country.

I did want to mark the fact that it was the first African-American to win the Lead Actress category.I thought it was so progressive.

Brazil is one of the biggest Latin American countries, the biggest, no doubt, and, more importantly, it is a country with immense development potential.