I know I have to stop reading the message board. I want to read it so I can answer your questions but you people are all insane. Well, at least some of you.

I didn't know what was going on. That's when I realized that everything had gone through the roof. I can't tell you how scary that was.

In L.A., I'm a normal popular guy -- that's what I always liked about being famous. I can still go to the grocery store without being accosted. Back then, the world speeded up to me.

I'm so excited and proud of this album, ... but it was so f-----g amazingly hard. Every record is a new experience.

Things are brewing. We will, in all likelihood, be seeing you soon. We may even see the inside of a studio soon. Things are stirring. It may even be possible to get me out of my house. Kicking and screaming and being dragged ... but out.

My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it.