“The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can – they want the popular vote.”

There’s a point you get to on the stage where you’re not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.

Listen! We’re not just doing this for the money! We’re doing this for a S*** LOAD of money!

With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn’t want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.

I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation.

Rural towns aren’t always idyllic. It’s easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.

Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.

So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off the shelf and go into them any time.

If I am a great man, then all great men are frauds.

We also have to engage – and I think this is important – in national politics because there is no way to address questions of this scale in the short time that we have to address them without engaging in real political change.

In every song I write, whether it’s a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.

When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government.

Part of the problem with some elements of the European debate is that they hanker for the days when we were a great power. Those days are gone, and they went a long time ago.