Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.

He took it all too far, but boy could he play guitar.

Why bother choosing a certain chair? Because that chair says something about you.

Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist

My sexual nature is irrelevant. I'm an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself.

When the musical keyboard was created in the 1970's, you had electronic geeks that had no background in music created these devises and gave them to musicians that had no background in electronics. The result was some of the wierd sounds that came out in the '70s.

I went mainstream in a major way with the song "Let's Dance." And what I found I had done was put a box around myself. It was very hard for people to see me as anything other than the person in the suit who did "Let's Dance," and it was driving me mad - because it took all my passion for experimenting away.