Pop music has always adopted the style of marrying upbeat melodies to dour lyrics.

I pretty much draw the line when people want you to do original music for commercials.

As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now.

I'd rather have a strong career, playing and selling records to a loyal audience, then having one record that exploded. That would be devastating.

My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist in pre-war Paris Smuggling bombs for the underground. And she met my father at a fete in Aix-en-Provence; He was disguised as a Russian cadet in the employ of the Axis.

When you get respect from the people who are buying your music and coming to your shows, there's an expectation that you have to live up to your own standards.

It is better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world around us.