“Rock n’ roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.”

My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.

I don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.

Whatever; bling always has something to hide.

If people think I’m angry, I don’t want to burst anybody’s bubble. I like sometimes for people to be afraid of me. But it’s not really anger; it’s discipline.

I like working until the morning, so I can see the day and then I like to go to sleep and then get up before sunset. But I love the energy of the morning.

My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.

I don’t like people who hide things.

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.

I don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.

It’s ridiculous for a woman to say that she’s not attracted to other women. That’s completely false.

I don’t know what I’m going to be doing in two years or even in two weeks. I have to live for today.

I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face – or so I was told.

I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.

You can’t expect your children to be perfect.

Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.

Most performers take themselves too seriously. They forget there is a difference between the characters they play on the screen or stage and themselves, but the public doesn’t forget there is a difference. They see how silly it is if you try to be the same person all the time.

The other day my house caught fire.

I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like thats because technology has caught up with us.

You’ve got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say.

Don’t get caught up on ‘I’m brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.’ You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492?

For a stretch of time, I got really caught up in the idea that what people liked about my work was that I was a young guy.

The more you tour, the better the band gets, and you get caught up in a lot more things than just traveling. It becomes a way to survive.

Touring is a rough thing. You don’t have any time to look around or stop and think if what you’re doing is making you happy.

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.