The way I see it, there's only one melody for any song.

Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.

I want people to listen to my lyrics and be okay with themselves. The people who have it the roughest are homosexuals who come out of the closet.

Rock and roll is - and should be - a kid's place.

If I'm in a relationship and my girlfriend is sleeping with other people, I don't need to know who it is; I just want to know how she feels about it.

In many ways, I've chosen to be plain, almost too plain, too self-effacing. Like, if I record a vocal and I don't like the way it sounds, I would have them turn it up and take the reverb off it to make it as plain as possible.

I'm not really a strange person or anything, so if there's music I like, usually there's other people who like it too.