"Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs."

"I always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform."

"I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being."

"I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like."

"Intellectually I'm probably a Republican."

"I think I'm a focus for international attention."

"I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back."