I like people to just bring it to the table and feel the moment. And that's why I've never done a session where I don't sing live.

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

Great sex is wonderful while it's happening, but who remembers great sex they had in 1983?

You go to LA, or you go to New York, and it's really fun to go there. But they're not grounded. Everybody is just competing all the time for the limelight. It's too much entertainment industry. There are too many choices. And it's distracting to me.

Sometimes you can hear them talk, other times you can't. All the same old cliches, is that a woman or a man?

When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a ring of circumstances... joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring.

I love working with different musicians in the studio, that's a real joy working with someone for the first time.