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

I'm romantically inclined. No human being on Earth is not attracted to other people. There is no fairy tale that they only have eyes for you. You just choose to act on it or not.

The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.

The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.

I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.

If the melody is telling me this is what the song is about, then I'm sort of forced into confession, autobiography or fantasy. If I don't do that, I've hamstrung the melody.

Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.