There are times pop music is the end result when I'm in the studio, but I don't really go in and say, 'Today I am going to make a pop song, ' but it can happen.

I'm just myself. That's the best way to put it.

I was a sad kid.

You just got with the flow because life is just all about how you feel.

My dad was always playing music. Not, like, playing music but listening to music.

There's enchantment in a smile, did you know?Shall I prove in a wink that it is so?Watch my mouth grin wide and see, How quick your lips smile back at me!

The most animated talks we have are about…things

After fifteen years of marriage my wife wants us to recommit our vows. As a man I don't understand her need to get married again. We've got our toaster let's move on.

I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image.

I lost in the second round of the French Open and had 10 days off. I went to the Hard Rock Cafe. It was exciting to be away from my parents, to stay in a hotel. Hotels at 17 meant freedom.

In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books.

Nothing is the mirror in which you see the world.

Keep your eye on the main event.

Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.

I personally love books that make me think, so I naturally gravitate toward writing a book like that, one that's going to make someone think and make me think.