Sometimes things that are comfortable are comfortable because it's what you're good at. When you start doing the things you're not as comfortable with, there needs to be a reason for it.

I don't think simple is an insult. Something that's really simple and great is probably harder to do than something more complex.

We try to be open to letting anything change in the moment.

As the fans' voting reflected, people want to hear your best-known songs.

In the open air you don't play as many quiet songs as you would normally.

It's one of the things that makes it enjoyable to keep playing; you have to approach each set differently and make some balance between what you want to do and what seems right.

Some sports teams hate each other in the locker room and that's what makes them great.

There's an actual physiological thing that happens to me on tour. There's that moment where I sit in my seat and click the seatbelt, and five seconds later I fall asleep.

When people ask you to do stuff, it's not your idea anymore, so it's tough to get behind it.

I have grown more forgiving. I accept that not everything is for me. I'm not as in love with my own opinions as I used to be. And anger is not something that comes to me as quickly as it once did.

You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.

"The time has come " the Walrus said "To talk of many things Of shoes - and ships - and sealing-wax - Of cabbages - and kings - And why the sea is boiling hot - And whether pigs have wings."

If everybody went to balls and did less drugs, itd be a fun world, wouldnt it?

It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.

All our songs are about love, travel and death.

A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense ahistorical.

I used to think I actually was Batman.

Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'

It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army.

Showing that you can be sexy, strong and independent is the best thing about being a Diva. It's a great inspiration for other people.