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

I think people use temp music quite a bit, but the people who write the temp music don't ever really learn that their music was inspiring a movie.

My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn't do it.

The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn't happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.

I drink a lot, probably too much. My scene while writing lyrics is always a bottle of scotch and stacks of note cards, pencil and pencil sharpener. I throw around note cards and drink.

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

I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it's usually because you're just not coming to grips with something.