I returned to upstate NY where I just laid in bed for days with a fever that just wouldn't go away. After more of this, I grew increasingly sure that this was not simply the flu!

I was a pioneer in MTV and I was there from the very beginning. So I saw how that developed and how loose it was and how much fun it was in its looseness. And I was influenced a lot by that.

Success and failure are equally surprising.

Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.

I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.

Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.

I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.