I've lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.

I compare songwriting to childbirth. How many kids can you have before your uterus explodes?

Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?

Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.

They say that these are not the best of times, but they're the only times I've ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own. Now I have seen that sad surrender in my lovers eyes...and I can only stand apart and sympathize...for we are only what our situations hand us...it's either sadness or euphoria.

My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.

People in music lie, but they don't expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.