“If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.”

You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.

My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.

People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It’s very selfish, but it’s understandable.

I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

I don’t want to be my extrovert self all the time.

The past is a great place and I don’t want to erase it or to regret it, but I don’t want to be its prisoner either.

All dancing is a replacement for sex.

Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.

I don’t know if rock is dying. I wouldn’t want to say that, but the world does change. Nothing stays the same.

Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.

Too much is never enough.

Don’t you think it’s sometimes wise not to grow up.

People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.

In England they always try out new mobile phones in Isle of Man. They’ve got a captive society. So I said, you should try the legalization of all drugs on the Isle of Man and see what happens.

Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.

To get a man’s attention, just stand in front of the TV and don’t move. He’ll talk to you. I promise.

He’s not the finest character that ever lived. But he’s a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

I don’t know if we’ll ever get used to the attention from the fans.

Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.

If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.

My only way of getting my uncles’ attention or aunts’ attention or whoever’s attention was by dancing and singing around the house.

A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.

But have we ever really been lost? Or have we just not been paying attention.