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.

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?

If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?

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

You know, being America, being the land of "number ones", everyone wants to be a leader before they follow.

My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me.

There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record.