Logic would also say that he was asked a question in an interview and he responded to it.

Literally, he's the one artist who never says "no comment". He's also one of the few artists who doesn't go into an interview with a list of questions that the interviewer can't ask.

Obviously if you tell your honest thoughts about someone, you're automatically considered a bitter old man. He was asked a question. The reason he was asked the question is because interviewers and journalist know that you can ask him anything, and he'll answer it. Which is particularly why they love him.

Yes, I love The Beatles comparisons. My thoughts exactly. I like Oasis and all, but this is true.

Former? No I love No Doubt (where the song I quoted is from) and solo Gwen......

I don't find it a coincidence that he mainly goes after artists way more successful and relevant than he is. He's clearly mad.

Oh, and like his band wasn't trying to ape The Beatles. Please.

He talks about all artists. Whether they're more successful or less successful. He gets asked a question, he answers it. He has stated before that his taste are more of the 60's and 70's, than the current artists. As I've said before, no one says anything when he is complimentary toward other artists.

No one ever talks about Metallica or the Foo Fighters being best buds with him, or him helping out Coldplay when they were coming up. No one talks about him being close friends with Johnny Depp (if that's not a stamp of approval, then I don't know what is). Nor do they talk about artists like Lily Allen, Maroon 5, The Killers, or The Arctic Monkeys, who have clearly cited him as influential.

I sometimes wonder why many music fans in other countries always find Americans out of touch, but it's topics like these that pretty much prove why. Every corner of the globe acknowledges him as one of the greatest songwriters of his generation, but because Americans either a.) don't know him, or b.) thinks all he did was "steal" from the Beatles, then that means he's a guy who's is always trying to put down the younger bigger artists.

Americans need to wake up and realize that they missed an entire musical movement during the 90's and early 2000's, and the world is still laughing at them for not realizing they missed it.