I started just concentrating on songwriting when I was abut 20; I'd been in rock bands six or seven years, kinda got that out of my system, I said, "ok, you ain't gonna be a rock star, you don't look like a rock star, it probably ain't gonna happen. So what you should do is write songs and maybe other people will do your songs."

...And you're the only one who knows.

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.

You only beat me if you get me to hate.

For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.

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

Let me go on sleeping and I will lose myself in palaces of sand, and all the fantasies that I've been keeping will make the empty hours easier to stand.