“I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers – he’s one of my heroes. Al Green, too.”

Normal is enormously susceptible to swinging with the gusts of politics and history.

I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I’m not just going to leap into it, because that’s not good for anybody.

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

I was the music dude that was naked all the time with the girls, and that’s fine, no problem with that.

Before I go on stage, I pretend that everyone loves me.

Yoga carves you into a different person – and that is satisfying physically.

Nobody has it all, but for me to even come close is amazing.

Roads taken far away from you are many. Do not fear, Mother; they all lead back.

When you commit to being a musician, I don’t think you’re really sure or care about when you’re going to pay the bills.

They are easier to write when I am impassioned and angry. It is a good way to channel that negative energy.

I’m feeling like the music business is reaping what it’s sown. It’s going through what inevitably it was going to go through.

If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side.

Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it’s okay to have those feelings.

She’s the coolest person in the world…I don’t date what the person does…

Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

And that’s when you know. It’s like, oh, my God, game over….

Did you ever see so many pee-wee hats, Carl?” “They’re beanies.” “They call them pee-wees in Brooklyn.” “But I’m not in Brooklyn.” “But you’re still a Brooklynite.”

I’m very lucky; I have a lot of knowledge. My favorite band is The Beatles, so a lot of inspiration for my music comes from them, too.

I saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.

It’s funny because if you ever ask anyone in England to try and do a Beatles accent, no one knows what they really sound like. If you ask anyone in America, they would try and give it a go. English people just know their songs.