You only beat me if you get me to hate.

I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.

I always wrote the music first, and the music gave me the mood and the lyrics were pretty much put in to give you a map, where that mood came from and where it's going. But my first love was really the music itself, and I guess I've gone back to that.

So I would choose to be with you, That's if the choice were mine to make, But you can make decisions too, And you can have this heart to break

I was thinking of the Four Seasons, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and when I was thinking "Uptown Girl!" I was trying to sing like Frankie Valli. They had a song called "Ragdoll," which was about a poor girl and a rich guy. So I just flipped it around and made it about a rich girl and a poor guy.

I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.

Following a code of silence, you're never gonna lose the anger.