“I have a high self-opinion – I don’t need to hide that. I don’t need to be self-deprecating.”

I don’t date my girlfriend because she’s a model. I date her because I love her.

I don’t know if it’s possible to live the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle and still be romantic.

I’m cocky. It’s different. Cocky is playful.

Chemistry cannot be purchased.

The power and the potency of music will transcend any one person’s opinion about it.

Hey, bro…So there’s like 7,000 paparazzi outside. Maybe two of you guys can roll over, and one of you can grab the Ferrari, and then we can just split? Thanks, bro.

And that’s me. Maybe the reason I was promiscuous and wanted to sleep with a lot of them, is that I love them so much.

Why couldn’t we learn from the devastatingly low percentage of successful marriages that our last generation went through?

I think the first thing that you need to detach yourself from is numbers, because music has now splintered off into so many different forms of media, MTV doesn’t play videos, the radio is now competing with the Internet.

Nothing wrong with making money.

I think pain is the best feeling for song writing. You can write good happy songs, but I think the kind of bruiting, depressing ones are more effective.

I think that’s actually fine, and I would encourage that all the time.

I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.

There’s nothing to win in yoga. You just do what you can do, one day to the next.

I’m not killing myself auditioning, chasing that dream

I do believe that I deserve what I have. I don’t think I’m entitled to it. That’s a big difference.

Often ironic and self-deprecating – are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others.