I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction.

Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.

I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

You can't write if you can't relate.

Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll all take care of itself.

When I did "Top of the Pops" for the first time, Ace of Base was one of the other bands, and I have a memory of them on a small stage next to me in the TV studio. A memory of their performance is burned into my mind. Seared.