Not too hard for me to stay motivated when I'm in sport where everyone's trying to knock me out.
Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it's not.
I'm romantically inclined. No human being on Earth is not attracted to other people. There is no fairy tale that they only have eyes for you. You just choose to act on it or not.
I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.
Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.
Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
I'm not really a strange person or anything, so if there's music I like, usually there's other people who like it too.
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.
There are many talented people.
Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.