More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

I work with musicians whose opinions I respect and if they don't like something they don't hold back. They'll say, 'That really sucks' and 'You've lost it' and 'You're no good anymore.' And I crawl away with my tail between my legs and I fear that kind of ridicule, but I want them to like the music I'm bringing to them.

I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.

I always thought of myself as the piano player in the band. That, I suppose, I'm confident about, and I guess my songwriting developed as I went along and I got a certain amount of confidence in that. The songs are like my kids, I'm proud of all of them for one reason or another.

Sergeant O'Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.

There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.

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