We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.

I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.

Don't go changing to try and please me You never let me down before Don't imagine you're too familiar And I don't see you anymore I would not leave you in times of trouble We never could have come this far I took the good times, I'll take the bad times I'll take you just the way you are Don't go trying some new fashion Don't change the color of your hair. [...] I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.

Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.

There ain't much future for a man who works the sea, there ain't no island left for islanders like me.

Here I am starting a franchise and I'm gonna be 65 years old. I should've started this in 1978... I wrote like 300 songs and I'm gonna have to re-learn some of them!

If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.