I think my music is like anchovies - some people like it, some people get nauseous.

You say something stupid and the next morning you're in the headlines.

Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they're full of muscle. 'Copacabana' sounds like it could have been released yesterday.

Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.

Sneakers are not my thing.

I didn't want to be treated like a 'star.' I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.

The dark night of the soul for me was one night in Florida, when I had been on the road for about four years and I realized that everybody around me was on my payroll, that my old friends hadn't been in touch with me and my family didn't know where to get me. I was a very unhappy guy and it was because I was really alone.