Getting the best response from people is how I base my success.

You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!

Through the years as the fire starts to mellow, burning lines in the book of our lives. Though the binding cracks and the pages start to yellow, I'll be in love with you.

I feel it right down in my stomach when I'm in touch with something. I don't know what it is.

People who listen to my records expect the ballads from me. The rock 'n roll is on there because it's another mode of expression.

Are you under the power of gold?

If someone criticizes my child it's gonna hurt me a little bit, but it's my child, you know, and I love it regardless.