I don't have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in my office.

I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.

I know my choices will be creative so long as I follow my heart.

You only go from nowhere to everywhere once. Let's enjoy it!

Back in the day you wanted your albums to have a theme, and 'Sports' theme was really a collection of singles. It was really a record for its time.

The power of love is a curious thing, make one man weep, make another man sing. Change a hawk to a little white dove, more than a feeling, that's the power of love.

It's true, I do like cheering people up.

When you get in the pocket, there is a place where the music begins to play itself. When you can find that spot, it's the best feeling in the world.

Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio.

Don't miss understand me, I'm not getting soft, all I want is a couple days off.

I went to engineering school, I went to physics class. I said, 'Screw this, I don't want to be here. I'd much rather be at a club playing music.

It was hard to love a woman that always made you feel so wishful.

Unjustified ambition kills value, Kills someone else's desire to fly, Cuts their wings, sucks their air.If there is nothing else, it eats its own life.

We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

I have not, in general, much belief in the ability of woman as a creative artist. Unwritten lyrics, as [Ralph Waldo] Emerson said once when we conversed on this subject, should be her forte.

Ah, these diplomats! What chatterboxes! There's only one way to shut them up - cut them down with machine guns. Bulganin, go and get me one!

That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

In our present high state of civilization, people are so much alike, that anything at all odd comes on one with the freshness and character of an antique coin among smooth shillings.

I'd like to become better at writing music by continuing to study it.

I never voted for anybody. I always voted against.