The influence is really all over the place. Detroit, definitely because of Motown and Stooges. When you come from a place like Detroit, you're really proud of what you have there.

I hate saying I'm a new musician, because I've been doing this forever, but they like to put new musicians on a lot of weird bills.

I love country, folk, and strong female voices, like Alison Krauss, Dolly Parton, PJ Harvey, and Kate Bush.

I went from living in my dad's basement to moving to New York. So I never had that middle ground of easing into adulthood.

I am small.So are stars from a distance. It's all a matter of perspective.

How did the Prince Charming of my childhood turn out to be such a crushing disappointment? Maybe he wasn't Prince Charming in the first place.

Both Neil and I had done solo projects where we were the boss and I just thought that if he was willing to get into it, it would really be a good experience for him.

We're not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain.

It's time to break our ties with anything in us that would rather complain about its situation than go to work to change it.

I want to see more companies do profit-sharing. If you help create the profits, you should be able to share in them, not just the executives at the top.

Somehow I wasn't completely crucified by the critics. I don't know how or why, I probably should've been.

In matters large and small, many people seemed concerned about churlishness, an ugliness in our relationships that appears to be increasing rather than decreasing.

Take care of brothers and sisters who are weaker ... the elderly, the sick, the hungry, the homeless and strangers, because we will be judged on this.

[The Outsiders] was all new to me. It's been fun to be a part of that ride, where it's become on the level of Catcher In The Rye in terms of people's required reading in schools.