“I don’t think you care about that as much as you care about playing music.”

And I think I have a distinct voice.

As a pop star, you don’t have to be that smart for people to think you’re intelligent.

You know what I mean? I could have been a zitty teenager and walked into a Tower Records, and we would have talked about Pearl Jam, and we would have fallen in love when we were 15

Do I really have moves like Jagger? F**king A, no, I don’t. But I was going to tell everybody that I did and hoped they believed me.

Do I really have moves like Jagger? F**king A, no, I don’t. But I was going to tell everybody that I did and hoped they believed me.

It is dangerous to exist in the world. To exist is to be threatened. We must live with threats.

Yoga takes what you have and molds and sculpts it, which is a much more natural way to look and feel.

I love music videos, I really do. I think it’s kind of sad that it’s a dying art form.

There was a time in my life when I lived probably a bit more on the primal level. And it was amazing.

I’m intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.

I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.

Shakira is a new friend, but I love her dearly already. She’s so sweet and adorable and hilarious.

I have a very young brother and sister, and if you can get a kid singing the words to a song after they heard it for the first time, it’s a hit.

Caffeine is like a really attractive girl that has nothing to say. You get all jacked up on it and then you’re left feeling hollow and empty.

It was a very decadent, very glamorous business that took advantage of a lot of people for a long time and didn’t do things right and had a poor business model.

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

I’d probably support it, but I can’t do much.

Because I think that we are less hampered when it comes to ‘this costs too much’ or ‘that’s impossible.’

We often try to quantify it with how much we feel seen and heard.

People love nobody as much as they do their hatred.

I have concluded through careful empirical analysis and much thought that somebody is looking out for me, keeping track of what I think about things, forgiving me when I do less than I ought.

That is much of what I think the writer’s job is – to slow people down.

This is because there is much more risk.

I actually had less time and the exact same budget on Hairspray, which was few years ago and this is a much bigger movie [then Rock of Ages]. That’s the way studios do it now.