“Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.”
“On 'Heartbreaker,' I had to sing those songs. I drank the way I did those songs. I ate the way I did those songs. I communicated the way I did those songs. With 'Gold,' I was trying to prove something to myself. I wanted to invent a modern classic.”