Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes.
I'm reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so conflicting. And they're both necessary for a happy balance, a happy existence... I think.
I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.
Every time Paul and Gene use my makeup, they have to pay me a royalty check. I think they changed the makeup so they didn't have to pay me.
If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising.
Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career - and then you move to Paris.
I have my 1973 Citroen DS 23 Pallas. I drive it all the time. It's still the most beautiful shape in the world.
When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start thinking that I could be a musician.
Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players.
I was quite a weird kid because I didn't like getting presents. I don't know why. I just went for books all the time.
A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.
The only time I ever appeared in the 'Enquirer' was for a piece about people who let their hair grow gray. I guess I'm not much of a wild child.
At the time, we thought it was a nice way to say something unique about the group to make us different from all the other bands kicking around in London.
I'm always amazed by people who blog all the time and tweet all the time, and still get things done. I don't know how they do it.
I went along and basically learned a few of the songs they were doing at the time, which were quite a few of the songs we ended up doing on our first album.
I just like to switch things up all the time. Like when it comes to singing, I try to find a different character for each song.
'I'm Yours' was written effortlessly in about 20 minutes' time, and I honestly thought it was more of like a kids' song, and I didn't do anything with it for years.
Once you've made a record, you don't need to make it again. It's done, and it's out there forever, a moment in time that encapsulates whatever was happening in that moment.
I fix things all the time. Every time I do a solo, I re-check it and correct things that don't hit the mark.
Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
I was either going onstage or going into an interview or getting on a plane. You can't really feel everything fully when you don't have the time to process.
