I never think anything's finished. It's really not. Recording is only just a moment in time. It's as good as you can do it until then.

There is a monumental difference between being alive and living. You should never settle for the first.

If we ever meet in real life, we can have a conversation. But you should go and live your real life and I'll go and live mine.

If we all can figure out how to work together then we are the embodiment of salvation for our entire planet. We have the capabilities of it. That's the gist of it.

You can say something stupid with an incredible heartfelt sentiment and for some reason, it might be insanely powerful.

It's hard to know if what you do is actually working for anyone else or not. There's so much music out there. Why would someone ever listen to what I do?

No one holds the power. Just because they might give you a bit of money every now and then doesn't mean that they have the right to change what you do.

Maybe 80 percent of what we conceive to be a song idea or the meaning of a song is not exactly what the artist meant most of the time. It's not bad - people can take what they want from it.

I don't mind throwing something away. It should be your best or it should be what you want people to hear and something that's good for people.

LA is an intense city. I was probably a bit too sensitive. I didn't have any friends so I was keeping pretty low key. I just whipped myself up into a bit of an emotional frenzy.

I change lyrics to the songs all the time, too. I don't know if it matters in a lot of ways because you can take what you want from it.

A kiss on the beach when there is a full moon is the closest thing to heaven.

don't do d right things for the wrong reasons

A performance does not capture or communicate with the mood and feelings of that very moment.

Like any value, empathy must be acted upon.

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.

I'm a late-night guy.

What a misfortune it is that we should thus be compelled to let our boys schooling interfere with their education!

I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor.

My fans will tell you all day that I can rap. That's all I need.

TV people in the UK... I'm getting on a lot better with them.