You'd hear Willie Nelson, then Earth, Wind & Fire, then Chicago, then Billy Joel on the same radio station. Nowadays, everything is compartmentalized.

I'm not like a legend that - so I'm sort of in the middle in this sort of gray area where, you know, I'm creating music and I'm not saying there isn't an audience because there is because all of those people go out and spend $80 to $150 on a concert ticket.

I hate the pigeonholing that's happened in the music business in the last 30 years.

Lionel Richie told me forget about the critics. But if you come back with hit after hit, you don't have to worry about anything.

It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.

I've always been serious about music. After you've done it for so many years, you get back to the basics.

Being a musician, you want to be able to do the hardest stuff there is. People would think it's classical, but in classical, it's all on the page and the difficulty is keeping up with the music.