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I'd like to actually work with a lot of other people, and whether it's someone who is completely unknown who I love and think is a talent, maybe I'll work with them, or, like, maybe I'll work with some of the biggest pop stars and write music for them.

Tom Hanks has been a huge idol of mine. I'd love to work with someone like him someday. You could learn a lot working with someone like that.

I get asked, 'Who would you really like to work with?' I'm already working with them. Smart, talented, funny people, good musicians, an extended family, good friends.

There are thousands of very, very talented artists who will never be known, even after they are dead.

In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.

I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.

I always wanted to work with Michael Jackson. His music will live forever and with technology nowadays... maybe I could.

It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how hard they lived.