I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show.

We all played bad before we played good.

My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician.

You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.

I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?

I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself.

Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.