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And, more important, none of Paul's music feels unfamiliar to me.

Not really interested in covering other bands songs to be honest.

If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?

All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them?

My idea of covers is that you should never cover a song and do it exactly like the artist because everyone's always going to compare it to the way the original artists did it, and they're just going to go, 'Oh I like the original better.'

It's pretty crazy the amount of people that have covered my songs.

Occasionally, you get a nice surprise when someone covers your song in an extraordinary way.

Because they're my stories, they're my version of events of the past three years. But I really hope people can hear their own stories within the songs and they can become our version of events.

Artists don't always know. Almost every song I ever recorded that was a hit at the majors that the promotional people picked I didn't think it would be a hit. I was wrong every time!

People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know.