“We hope we’re better. The reality is we had a pretty darn good team last year. But you can’t just throw your gloves out there and be good again. We want to take that next step as a team.”

Derek (Jeter) told me the ghosts would show up eventually!

I don’t know why we play better on the road. I really don’t. Chalk it up to coincidence, I guess. I don’t think we care where we play, which is a good thing. But you’d like to see our home record be a little better than it is.

I feel as passionate as when I was 13 years old and just released my first album. I feel the same amount of adrenaline in my blood, and the same amount of curiosity as well. Curiosity about why I’m different.

Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.

So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn’t steal from each other.

After the first couple of years recording I did a lot of praying. I said, ‘Lord, please give me a hit.’ I want one so bad.

The way I measure my life is ‘Am I better than I was last year?’

You know, 10 years ago I never thought I’d be in this position. It’s a dream and I don’t even know if I dreamed this big.

It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.

Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.