Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter, a major influence on my own music from the very start.

If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens.

I returned to upstate NY where I just laid in bed for days with a fever that just wouldn't go away. After more of this, I grew increasingly sure that this was not simply the flu!

Traditionally, duos get accused of lots of things.

Success and failure are equally surprising.

Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke - even death.

I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.

Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.

The Daryls House thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.

I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.

Love at first sight kill at first betray

Help humanity to help yourself. Love humanity to love yourself.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

The attacks inside Israel are operations we carry out in response to Israeli crimes against our people.

It's funny that people think because you don't have a movie or record out, you disappear into a frozen chamber someplace. They think you're dead when you're not in the public eye.

We are seeking to avoid a new Cold War, avoid a new arms race, and, therefore, we continue to work for a more constructive relationship with Russia, including political dialogue with Russia.

In the West, you take people at their word.

God's commandments not only reflect His holiness, they promote our happiness.

But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.

I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!